Indian intellectuals today feel radical when they condemn f… - Arundhati Roy

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Indian intellectuals today feel radical when they condemn fundamentalism, but not many people are talking about the links between privatization, globalization, and fundamentalism. Globalization suits the Indian elite to a T. Fundamentalism doesn't.

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

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