[lbo-talk] Arundhati Roy

// ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Mon Jun 6 16:33:17 PDT 2011


On Jun 6, 2011, at 6:50 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Jun 6, 2011, at 6:16 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> You know, almost a million dollar advance for a first book for a newbie author seems amazing.
>>
>> I wonder how she swung that?
>
> She's beautiful and postcolonial - and before she went all political, she was a great ad for neoliberalized India.
>

You guys keep saying this … that she is beautiful. I find that an insult to the gorgeous women of India. Stop imposing your Western ideals on us! :-) (No offence (to Roy)).

—ravi



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