India lives in her villages, we are told in every other san… - Arundhati Roy

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India lives in her villages, we are told in every other sanctimonious public speech, That's bullshit. India doesn't live in her villages. India dies in her villages. India gets kicked around in her villages. India lives in her cities. India's villages just live only to serve her cities. Her villages are her citizen's vassals and for that reason must be controlled and kept alive, but only just.

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Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian writer and social activist

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