1. See ‘The Supreme Court Judgements’, online at <http://www.narmada.org/sardar-sarovar/sc.ruling/index.html#judgements>.
2. See Bharat Dogra, ‘Private Hydro Project on Narmada River Halted’, Asia Water Wire, online at <http://www.asiawaterwire.net/node/359>. See also, ‘A Temple Too Far’, New Internationalist, online at <http://www.newint.org/issue336/temple.htm>.
3. L.C. Jain, Dam Vs Drinking Water, 2001, Parisar, New Delhi.
4. See Ramaswamy Iyer, ‘Narmada Project: The Points at Issue’, The Hindu, 13 April 2006, online at <http://www.hindu.com/2006/04/13/stories/2006041304250800.htm>.
5. For full text of the Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal Award, visit <http://www.sscac.gov.in/NWDT.pdf>.
6. R. Rangachari et al, Large Dams: India’s Experience, 2000, a WCD case study prepared as an input to the World Commission on Dams, Cape Town, online at <http://www.dams.org/docs/kbase/studies/csinmain.pdf>.
7. See Virender Kumar, ‘Gujarat War Cry: Panel on World Be Damned’, Indian Express, 11 September 1998. Online at <http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/ple/ie/daily/19980911/25450034.html>.
8. See World Commission on Dams, Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making, 2000, Earthscan Publications Ltd, London and Sterling, Virginia. For full text of the report visit <http://www.dams.org//docs/report/wcdreport.pdf>.
9. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 2002, Penguin Books India, New Delhi.
10. Arundhati Roy, ‘The End of Imagination’, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, 2002, Penguin Books India, New Delhi.
11. See Ramachandra Guha, ‘The Arun Shourie of the Left’, The Hindu, 26 November 2000, online at <http://www.hindu.com/2000/11/26/stories/13260411.htm>.
12. See Chittaroopa Palit, ‘The Historian as Gatekeeper’, Frontline, Volume 17, Issue 26, 23 December 2000–05 January 2001, online at <http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1726/17261160.htm>.
13. Ramachandra Guha, Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, His Tribals, and India, 1999, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
14. Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha, This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India, 1992, University of California Press, Berkeley.
15. Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha, Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India, 1995, Routledge, London.
16. Patrick McCully, Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams, 1996, Zed Books, London.
17. See Arundhati Roy, ‘The Greater Common Good’, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, 2002, Penguin Books India, New Delhi, p. 136.
18. See Arundhati Roy, ‘Power Politics’, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, 2002, Penguin Books India, New Delhi p. 143.
19. See Ramachandra Guha, ‘Perils of Extremism’, The Hindu, 17 December 2000, online at <http://www.hindu.com/2000/12/17/stories/1317061b.htm>.
20. Rahul Ram, Muddy Waters: A Critical Assessment of the Benefits of the Sardar Sarovar Project, 1993, Kalpavriksh, Pune.
21. Arundhati Roy, ‘The End of Imagination’, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, 2002, Penguin Books India, New Delhi.
22. See Arundhati Roy, ‘The Cost of Living’, Frontline, Volume 17, Issue 03, 5–8 February 2000, online at <http://www.flonnet.com/fl1703/17030640.htm>.
23. See Ramachandra Guha, ‘Perils of Extremism’, The Hindu, 17 December 2000, online at <http://www.hindu.com/2000/12/17/stories/1317061b.htm>.
24. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 2002, Penguin Books India, New Delhi, p. 306.
1. Nirmal Ghosh, ‘Indian Caste Killings Put Rule of Law to Test’, The Straits Times (Singapore), 10 August 2001, p. 13.
2. Arundhati Roy, Power Politics, 2nd ed., 2001, South End Press, Cambridge.
3. The Communist Party of India came to power in Kerala in 1957.
4. ‘The Reproduction Function’, The Economist, 8 January 1977, p. 72.
5. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 2002, Penguin Books India, New Delhi.
6. The essays were published in 1993 and 1994 in the now-defunct Sunday.
7. Abhay Mehta, Power Play: A Study of the Enron Project, 2000, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, p. 3.
8. See Arundhati Roy, ‘Power Politics: The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin’, in Power Politics, 2nd ed., pp. 35–86, an updated version of an essay originally published in Outlook, 27 November 2000. See also Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living, 1999, Flamingo.
9. ‘India: Historians Flay Bid to Communalise History’, The Hindu, 7 November 2001, online at <http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/11/07/stories/02070008.htm>.
10. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 2002, Penguin Books India, New Delhi.
11. Arundhati Roy, ‘The Greater Common Good’, in The Cost of Living, 1999, Flamingo.
12. See The Friends of River Narmada, ‘The Sardar Sarovar Dam: A Brief Introduction’, <http://www.narmada.org/ sardarsarovar. html>; ‘Sardar Sarovar Project—Denial of Rights!’ <http://www.narmada.org/sardar-sarovar/rr.feb 2002. html>; and ‘Who Pays? Who Profits? A Short Guide to the Sardar Sarovar Project’, <http://www.nannada.org/sardar-sarovar/faq/whopays.htm>.
13. Bradford Morse et al., Sardar Sarovar: The Report of the Independent Review, 1992, Resource Futures International, Ottawa. See also Robert Marquand, ‘Indian Dam Protests Evoke Gandhi’, Christian Science Monitor, 5 August 1999, p. 1.
14. C.V.J. Sharma, ed., Modern Temples of India: Selected Speeches of Jawaharlal Nehru at Irrigation and Power Projects, 1989, Central Board of Irrigation and Power, Delhi, pp. 40–49.
15. R. Rangachari et al, Large Dams: India’s Experience, 2000, a WCD Case study prepared as an input to the World Commission on Dams, online at <http://www.dams.org/docs/kbase/studies/csinmain.pdf>.
16. World Commission on Dams, Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making, Earthscan Publications Ltd, London and Sterling, Virginia. For full text of the report visit <http://www.dams.org//docs/report/wedreport.pdf>.
17. Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living, 1999, Flamingo, p. 8.
18. In 2001, according to United Nations statistics, 72.1 per cent of India’s population was rural and India ranked 127th in the Human Development Index. United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Human Development Indicators 2003, Table 5 (Demographic Trends): Urban Population (as % of Total), <http://www.undp.org/hdr2003/indicator/indic_41_1_1.html>.
19. Arundhati Roy, ‘The End of Imagination’, in The Cost of Living, 1999, Flamingo.
20. Jason Burke, ‘Kashmir Feels Heat of Summer War’, The Observer, 6 June 1999, p. 29.
21. Jonathan Braude, ‘Little Hitler Calls Shots’, South China Morning Post, 13 November 1995, p. 19; Peter Popham, ‘Why Indian Nationalists Would Love to Massacre St. Valentine’s Day’, The Independent, 14 February 2002, p. 16; and Peter Popham, ‘Valentine’s Day Sullies Hindu Ways’, The Independent, 13 February 2001, p. 14.
22. Arundhati Roy, Power Politics, 2nd ed., 2001, South End Press, Cambridge, pp. 2–3.
23. Christopher Thomas, ‘Villages of the Dammed’, The Times, 11 May 1991.
24. For more details, see Arundhati Roy, ‘Democracy: Who Is She When She Is at Home’, in War Talk, 2003, South End Press, Cambridge, pp. 17–44.
1. Simon Holden, ‘Booker Winner Faces Morality Case in India’, Press Association Limited, 15 October 1997.
2. Aradhana Seth, DAM/AGE: A Film with Arundhati Roy, 2003, First Run/Icarus Films, New York. Originally produced for the BBC 4, London, and aired April 2002.
3. Arundhati Roy, ‘Come September’, in War Talk, 2003, South End Press, Cambridge, p. 46.
4. Michael Moore, Bowling for Columbine, 2003, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, New York.
5. Arundhati Roy, War Talk, 2003, South End Press, p. 52.
6. Arundhati Roy, War Talk, 2003, South End Press, p. 49.
7. Claudio Alvares, ‘The Bhopal Gas Disaster: Fresh Outrage’, Third World Resurgence 143–44 (July–August 2002), pp. 12–13. See also Sabrina Jones, ‘Survivors Pressure Dow on Bhopal Aftermath’, Washington Post, 7 May 2002, p. E6.
8. ‘MP Govt. Misused Relief Funds’, The Statesman, 22 February 2001.
9. Arundhati Roy, Power Politics, 2003, South End Press, Cambridge, p. 138.
10. The White House, The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, The White House, Washington DC, 17 September 2002, online at <http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html>. Madeleine Albright quoted in Noam Chomsky, ‘US Iraq Policy: Motives and Consequences’, in Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War, 2002, 2nd ed., South End Press, Cambridge, p. 72.
11. Cited in Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance, 2003, Metropolitan, New York, p. 190.
12. Churchill quoted in Editorial, ‘Scurrying Toward Bethlehem’, New Left Review, 2nd series (July/August 2001), p. 9, n. 5.
13. Arundhati Roy, Power Politics, 2nd ed., 2001, South End Press, Cambridge, p. 145.
1. Noam Chomsky, For Reasons of State, updated ed., Introduction by Arundhati Roy, 2003, New Press, New York.
2. Dan Morrison, ‘India’s “Patriot Act” Comes Under Scrutiny’, Christian Science Monitor, 30 October 2003, p. 7. See also Akshaya Mukul, ‘12-Year-Old Boy Arrested under POTA’, The Economic Times of India, 21 February 2003. See also Teesta Setalvad, ‘Do We Need Another TADA?’ The Times of India, 23 July 2000.
3. Nirmal Ghosh, ‘New Delhi Mall Shootout: Police Credibility On Line’, The Straits Times, 9 November 2002. See also Agence France-Presse, ‘Pakistan Says Indian Mall Clash Fake, Refuses to Collect Bodies’, 11 November 2002.
4. On 29 October 2003, Geelani was freed, after nearly two years in jail, when a New Delhi appeals court overturned his conviction. See Edward Luce, ‘Indian Court Quashes Academic’s Terror Conviction’, Financial Times, 30 October 2003, p. 13. See also Morrison, ‘India’s “Patriot Act” Comes Under Scrutiny’, Christian Science Monitor, 30 October 2003, p. 7. Amnesty International, ‘India: Open Letter to Law Minister about the Trial of Abdul Rehman Geelani and Three Others’, 8 July 2002 (AI Index: ASA 20/011/2002 (Public), News Service No: 116), online at <http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGASA200112002>.
5. Hina Kausar Alam and P. Balu, ‘J&K [Jammu and Kashmir] Fudges DNA Samples to Cover Up Killings’, The Times of India, 7 March 2002.
6. Amy Waldman, ‘A Web Site in India that Revealed Graft Becomes a Target’, New York Times, 13 February 2003, p. A5. See also Celia W. Dugger, ‘Bribery Scandal Engrosses TV Viewers in India’, New York Times, 24 March 2001, p. A3.
7. Luke Harding, ‘Act of Desecration which Changed the Face of Indian Politics’, Guardian, 1 March 2002, p. 19; John F. Burns, ‘A Decade After Massacre, Some Sikhs Find Justice’, New York Times, 16 September 1996, p. A4.
8. Arundhati Roy, War Talk, 2003, South End Press, Cambridge, pp. 17–44.
9. Agence France-Presse, ‘India, Enron Deny Payoff Charges Over Axed Project’, 7 August 1995.
10. Arundhati Roy, Power Politics, 2nd ed., 2001, South End Press, Cambridge, p. 138.
11. Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living, pp. 50–51; Usha Ramanathan, ‘Along the Narmada…’, Report of Public Hearings (Jan Sunvayi) from the Narmada Valley, 13–15 July 2002, online at <www.narmada.org/sardar-sarovar/jan.sunvayi.report.pdf>; Christopher Kremmer, ‘The Flood of Outrage’, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 September 1999, p. 6.
12. World Commission on Dams, Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making, 2000, Earthscan Publications Ltd, London and Sterling, Virginia. Stewart Fleming, ‘Damning of the World’s Dam-Builders’, Evening Standard, 16 November 2000, p. 45; Phil Williams and Patrick McCully, ‘Lies, Damn Lies’, Guardian, 22 November 2000, p. 8; Phil Williams, ‘Poor Are Sold Down the River’, Manchester Guardian Weekly, 13 December 2000, p. 26.
13. Sanjay Kak, Words on Water, 2002.
14. George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1980, OUP, New York, p. 58.
15. ‘Speed Up Linking of Major Rivers: Supreme Court Tells Government’, Times of India, 1 November 2002. See also Medha Patkar and L.S. Aravinda, ‘Interlinking Mirages’, The Hindu, 3 December 2002; Manoj Mitta, ‘The River Sutra’, Indian Express, 1 March 2003.
16. Atal Behari Vajpayee quoted in Celia W. Dugger, ‘India Reacts With Anger to a Speech by Pakistani’, New York Times, 7 February 2002, p. A9.
17. Amy Waldman, ‘New Government in Kashmir Brings Hope for Peace’, New York Times, 3 November 2002.
18. ‘Nobel laureate Amartya Sen may think that health and education are the reasons why India has lagged behind in development in the past 50 years, but I think it is because of defence,’ said L.K. Advani. See ‘Quote of the Week, Other Voices’, India Today, 17 June 2002, p. 13.
19. ‘VHP Calls Advani a Pseudo-Secularist’, The Hindu, 20 November 2002.
20. Raj Chengappa and Malini Goyal, ‘Housekeepers to the World’, India Today, 18 November 2002, online at <http://www.india-today.com/itoday/20021118/cover.shtml>.
21. Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance, 2003, Metropolitan, New York, p. 225–32.
22. Arundhati Roy, Power Politics, 2nd ed., 2001, South End Press, Cambridge, p. 30.
23. Frederick Douglass, ‘The Significance of Emancipation in the West Indies’, in The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, Volume 3: 1855–63, ed. John W. Blassingamem, 1985, Yale University Press, New Haven, p. 204.
24. Muhammed Iqbal, Bang-i-Dara (1924), in Kulliyat-e-Iqbal, 1975, Aligarh Book Depot, India, p. 278. Translated by David Barsamian.
25. Prayas (Initiatives in Health, Energy, Learning and Parenthood), Pune, India, <http://www.prayaspune.org/>. See Rasika Dhavse, ‘Determined Efforts, Definite Direction’, November 2002, Indiatogether.org, online at <http://www.indiatogether.org/stories/2002/rdl102.htm>.
26. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Beyond Vietnam’, 4 April 1967. In Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Luther King Papers Project at Stanford University, Stanford, California, online at <http://www. stanford.edu/group/King/publications/speeches/Beyond_Vietnam.pdf>.
27. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’, 16 April 1963. In Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Luther King Papers Project at Stanford University, Stanford, California, online at <http://www.Stanford.edu/group/King/popular_requests/frequentdocs/>.
28. ‘US Treasury Secretary Rubs It In: Reform, Reform and Reform’, Indian Express, 22 November 2002.
29. Lee Walczak and Richard S. Dunham, ‘Corporate Crime: Why It’s Not Sticking to Republicans’, Business Week, 7 October 2002, p. 57.
30. Howard Zinn, Terrorism and War, ed. Anthony Arnove, 2002, Seven Stories Press, New York, p. 55.
31. See Ashutosh Varshney, ‘Doomed from Within,’ Newseek, 18 March 2002, p. 29. See also Maria Misra, ‘Religious Bigotry Is Poisoning Indian Democracy’, Financial Times, 4 March 2003, p. 19.
32. Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, 6th ed., 2000, Beacon Press, Boston.
33. See Bhaskar Roy, ‘Censor Board Bombards Peace Film’, The Times of India, 23 June 2002.
34. Noam Chomsky, 9–11, ed. Greg Ruggiero, 2001, Seven Stories Press, New York.
35. Thomas Babington Macaulay, ‘Minute of 2 February 1835 on Indian Education’, Prose and Poetry, ed. G.M. Young, 1952, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, pp. 721–29.
36. The New Yorker, 23 and 30 June 1997.
37. See Arundhati Roy, ‘The Cost of Living’, Frontline, Volume 17, Issue 03, 5–8 February 2000, online at <http://www.flonnet.com/fl1703/17030640.htm>.
38. Rashme Sehgal, ‘Female Foeticide Leaves Haryanvi Grooms Abegging’, The Times of India, 10 November 2002.
39. Nargis is quoted in Salman Rushdie, ‘India’s Courts Flounder as Dam Pressure Builds’, Guardian, 11 August 2001, p. 14.
1. ‘Stray Incidents Take Gujarat Toll to 544’, The Times of India, 5 March 2002.
2. ‘Chinese Steel Firm Buys 50,000 Tonnes of World Trade Center Scrap’, Agence France-Presse, 23 January 2002. See ‘WTC Scrap at Gujarat Port Awaits Toxicity Test’, Indian Express, 17 April 2002. See also L.H. Naqvi, ‘Workers Exposed to Toxic Ship Scrap’, Tribune, 2 June 2003, online at <http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030602/biz. htm#1>. Rinku Pegu, ‘WTC Wreckage for India: Exporting Toxins’, 1 February 2002, Tehelka.com, online at <http://www.tehelka.com/channels/currentaffairs/2002/feb/1/printabl/ca20102wtcpr.htm>.
3. See, for example, Niall Ferguson, ‘Welcome the New Imperialism’, Guardian, 31 October 2001, p. 20, and Niall Ferguson, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lesson for Global Power, 2003, Basic Books, New York.
4. Thomas L. Friedman, ‘Bored With Baghdad—Already’, New York Times, 18 May 2003, p. 4: 13.
5. Arundhati Roy, War Talk, 2003, South End Press, Cambridge, p. 111.
6. Andrew H. Card quoted in Elisabeth Bumiller, ‘Bush Aides Set Strategy to Sell Policy on Iraq’, New York Times, 7 September 2002, p. Al. See Arundhati Roy, War Talk, 2003, South End Press, Cambridge, p. 66.
7. Paul Wolfowitz quoted in Walter Pincus, ‘Syria Warned Again Not to “Meddle” in Iraq’, Washington Post, 11 April 2003, p. A37.
8. Arundhati Roy, interview by Anthony Arnove, ‘The Outline of the Beast’, Socialist Worker, 13 April 2003, pp. 6–7, online at <http://www.socialistworker.org/2003-1/449/449_06_ArundhatiRoy.shtml>.
9. Elizabeth Becker, ‘Feeding Frenzy Underway, as Companies from All Over Seek a Piece of the Action’, New York Times, 21 May 2003.
10. Nicholas Kristof, ‘Bigotry in Islam—and Here’, New York Times, 9 July 2002, p. A21. Jerry Falwell, interviewed by Bob Simon, 60 Minutes II, 6 October 2002.
11. Sanjeev Miglani, ‘Opposition Keeps Up Heat on Government Over Riots’, Reuters, 16 April 2002.
12. Michael Ledeen quoted in Jonah Goldberg, ‘Baghdad Delenda Est, Part Two: Get On With It’, National Review, 23 April 2002, online at <http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg042302.asp>.
13. Arundhati Roy, Press Conference sponsored by the Center for Economic and Social Rights, New York, 12 May 2003. See also Roy, ‘Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy (Buy One, Get One Free)’, New York, 13 May 2003, online at <http://www.cesr.org/arundhatiroytranscript>.
14. The White House, The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, Section VIII, ‘Develop Agendas for Cooperative Action with the Other Main Centers of Global Power’, <http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html>.
1. ‘A System Suffocating the Majority’, International Socialist Review, Issue 36, July–August 2004, online at <http://www.isreview.org/issues/36/roy.shtml>.
2. The US presidential election was held on 2 November 2004. George W. Bush, the candidate from the Republican Party defeated Democratic candidate John Kerry. The main issues on which the election was fought were Bush’s war on terrorism and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
3. Arundhati Roy, ‘Public Power in the Age of Empire’, Frontline, Volume 21, Issue 21, 9–22 October 2004, online at <http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2121/stories/20041022008300400.htm>.
4. Barbara Starr and Elise Labott, ‘U.S. Calls off Search for Iraqi WMDs’, CNN.com, 12 January 2005, online at <http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/12/wmd.search/>. See also, Sidney Blumenthal, ‘Bush Knew Saddam Had No Weapons of Mass Destruction’, salon.com, online at <http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/index.html>.
5. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, born on 27 October 1945, is the current president of Brazil, and a founding member of the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores). Lula was elected to the post on 27 October 2002 with 61 per cent of the votes, and took office on 1 January 2003. On 29 October 2006, Lula was re-elected with more than 60 per cent of the votes.
6. Michael Ignatieff, ‘The Burden’, New York Times magazine, 5 January 2003.
7. Salman Rushdie, ‘Anti-Americanism Has Taken the World by Storm’, Guardian, 6 February 2002, online at <http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/comment/story/0,645579,00.html>.
8. Arundhati Roy, ‘Do Turkeys Enjoy Thanksgiving?’ in An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire, 2006, Penguin Books India, New Delhi, p. 193.
9. Arundhati Roy, ‘Terror and the Maddened King’, in The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy, 2004, South End Press, Cambridge.
10. Ibid.
11. Pratap Chatterjee, ‘Water Wars’, CorpWatch.org, 1 May 2003, online at <http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=6670>.
12. The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958; Act 28 of 1958, 11 September 1958, online at <http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/document/actandordinances/armed_forces_special_power_act_1958.htm>. See also, ‘Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act: A Study in National Security Tyranny’, South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre, online at <http://www.hrdc.net/sahrdc/resources/armed_forces.htm>.
13. For more on the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA), see <http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/document/actandordinances/TADA.HTM>.
14. For full text of the USA Patriot Act see <http://epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html>.
15. For full text of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002, see <http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/document/actandordinances/POTA.htm#7>.
16. Arundhati Roy, An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire, 2006, Penguin Books India, New Delhi.
17. Michael Francis Moore is an American author and Academy Award-winning director and producer of three of the top five highest-grossing documentaries of all time: Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Bowling for Columbine. He was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2005.
18. Jehane Noujaim, Control Room, 2004. See, ‘Director Interview’, BBC, 5 August 2004, online at <http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/jehane-noujaim.shtml>.
19. Arundhati Roy, ‘The Algebra of Infinite Justice’, in The Algebra of Infinite Justice, 2002, Penguin Books India, New Delhi, p. 217.
20. Kathy Kelly is an American peace activist and three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
21. Voices in the Wilderness was founded in 1996 and has campaigned to end economic and military warfare against the Iraqi people. It has organized over seventy delegations to Iraq in deliberate violation of UN economic sanctions and US law. For more on Voices in the Wilderness visit <http://vitw.org/>.
22. A women’s organization in Afghanistan that promotes women’s rights and secular democracy, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) was founded in Kabul in 1977 by Meena Keshwar Kamal, a student activist who was assassinated in 1987 for her involvement in politics. For more on the RAWA and its activities visit <http://www.rawa.org/index.php>.
23. Arundhati Roy, War Talk, 2003, South End Press, Cambridge.
1. See Denis J. Halliday, ‘UN Sanctions Against Iraq Only Serve US Ambition’, Irish Times, 11 August 2000.
2. See Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, 1997, Touchstone, New York.
3. See Michael Ignatieff, ‘The American Empire (Get Used to It)’, New York Times magazine, 5 January 2003.
4. On 15 February 2003 there were coordinated protests against the imminent invasion of Iraq in approximately 800 cities around the world. According to BBC News, between 6 and 10 million people took part in protests in up to sixty countries over two days. Opposition to the war was highest in the Middle East, although protests there were relatively small. Mainland China was the only major region not to see any protests.
1. See, ‘Iran “Biggest Threat to Mid-East”’, 31 July 2003, BBC News, online at <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6923430.stm>.
2. See, ‘Iraq Work Helps Halliburton’, 29 October 2003, www.cnnmoney.com, online at <http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/29/news/companies/halliburton_earns/index.htm>.
3. See David R. Segal and Mary W. Segal, ‘Army Recruitment Goals Endangered as Percent of African-American Enlistees Declines’, Population Reference Bureau, online at <http://www.prb.org/Articles/2005/ArmyRecruitmentGoalsEndangeredasPercentofAfrican AmericanEnlisteesDeclines.aspx>.
4. See, Ian Traynor, ‘The Privatization of War’, Guardian, 10 December 2003. See also, Antonia Juhasz, ‘Bush’s Other Iraq Invasion’, 22 August 2005, online at <http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/24307/>.
5. See Veterans against the Iraq War, online at <http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php>.
1. See P.R. Brahmananda, ‘The Poverty Controversy’, The Hindu Business Line, 1 November 2000, online at <http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2000/11/01/stories/040120ac.htm>.
2. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was enacted on 25 August 2005 by the United Progressive Alliance government. NREGA provides a legal guarantee for one hundred days of employment, at the statutory minimum wage, in every financial year to adult members of any rural household willing to do unskilled manual work. For more details on NREGA see <http://nrega.nic.in/>.
3. For full text of the speech see, ‘In Acceptance of an Honorary Degree from Oxford University on 8 July, 2005’, The Hindu, online at <http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/nic/0046/pmspeech.htm>.
4. See Chandrabhan Prasad, Dalit Diary: 1999–2003, Reflections on Apartheid in India, 2004, Navayana Publishing, Pondicherry.
5. See National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) Resolution, ‘Discrimination Based on Work and Descent’, 2004, online at <http://www.dalits.org/Discrimination_work_descent.htm>.
6. See Naveen Jaganathan, ‘The Gurgaon Riots’, Counterpunch, 30 July 2005.
7. See Rehan Ansari, ‘The News of a Kidnapping’, Chowk, 18 May 1999.
8. Dahr Jamail, ‘What Have We Done’, 6 August 2005, Antiwar.com, online at http://www.antiwar.com/jamail/?articleid=6893>.
9. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 2002, Penguin Books India, New Delhi.
1. See Tarun J. Tejpal, ‘Sleaze, Senseless Greed and Dirty Heroes’, 13 March 2004, Tehelka.com, online at <http://tehelka.com/home/20041009/operation/tarun.htm>. See also Avinash Dutt, ‘Catching Up with Jaya Jaitly’, 20 January 2007, Tehelka.com, online at http://www.tehelka.com/story_main25.asp?filename=Ne012007Catching_up.asp>.
2. Shaad Ali, Bunty aur Babli, 2005.
3. See Shripad Dharmadhikary, ‘Arundhati Roy Donates Booker Prize Amount to the Narmada Bachao Andolan’, Narmada Bachao Andolan Press Release, 26 June 1999, online at <http://www.narmada.org/nba-press-releases/june-1999/booker.html>.
4. See Sydney Peace Foundation at <http://www.spf.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.shtml>. See also, Arundhati Roy, ‘Sydney Peace Prize Lecture’, 2004, online at <http://www.smh.com.au/news/Opinion/Roysfull-speech/2004/11/04/1099362264349.html>.
1. In 2005, a major earthquake measuring 7.6 to 7.7 on the Richter scale hit Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan and parts of Afghanistan. The epicentre was Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The total official death toll, including Afghanistan, Pakistan-administered Kashmir and the areas controlled by India was pegged at 74,600.
2. Arundhati Roy, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, 2002, Penguin Books India, New Delhi.
3. For text of the letter see, ‘Arundhati Roy Refuses Sahitya Akademi Award’, South End Press, 13 January 2006, online at <http://www.southendpress.org/news/news4>.
4. For full text of the Nuremberg principles see, ‘International Humanitarian Law: Treaties and Documents’, online at <http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/FULL/390?OpenDocument>.
5. Arundhati Roy, An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire, 2006, Penguin Books India, New Delhi.
6. The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy, 2004, South End Press, Cambridge.
1. In this interview, Arundhati Roy updates her essay on the Narmada issue, ‘The Greater Common Good’, published in 1999 in Frontline which was also published in The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Revised and Updated Edition, 2002, Penguin Books India, New Delhi.
2. Writ Petition 319 of 1994 argued that the Sardar Sarovar Project violated the fundamental rights of those affected by the project, and that the project was not viable on social, environmental, technical (including seismic and hydrological), financial or economic grounds. The petition asked for a comprehensive review of the project, pending which construction on the project should cease. On 18 October 2000, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, comprising Justice A.S. Anand, Justice S.P. Bharucha and Justice B.N. Kirpal, delivered its final verdict on the writ, saying that the construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam be completed as ‘expeditiously’ as possible. For more details see Arundhati Roy, ‘Postscript’ to the essay ‘The Greater Common Good’, in The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Revised and Updated Edition, 2002, Penguin Books India, New Delhi, p. 138.
3 For text of report see <http://www.hinduonnet.com/2006/04/17/stories/2006041705231100.htm>.
4. See Arundhati Roy, ‘The Road to Harsud’, in An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire, 2006, Penguin Books India, New Delhi, p. 241.
5. For full text of the recommendation of the Narmada Water Dispute Tribunal Award see <http://narmada.aidindia.org/docs/nwdt.final.award.pdf>.
6. Jared Diamond, Collapse, Viking Penguin, 2005, Penguin Group (USA) Inc., New York.
7. Shripad Dharmadhikary, Unravelling Bhakra: Assessing the Temple of Resurgent India, 2005, Manthan Adhyayan Kendra, Madhya Pradesh.
8. Arundhati Roy, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Revised and Updated Edition, 2002, Penguin Books India, New Delhi.
9. For report on the incident, visit <http://www.amnesty.org/es/alfresco_asset/1722a3fa-a341-11dc-8d74-6f45f39984e5/nws210062007en.html>.
10. See Narmada Bachao Andolan, 2002, online at <http://www.narmada.org/nba-press-releases/april-2002/mp.maanpackage.html>. See also Gargi Parsai, ‘Madhya Pradesh’s Rehabilitation Claims Exposed’, 17 April 2006, online at <http://www.hinduonnet.com/2006/04/17/stories/2006041719720100.htm>.
11. See ‘The Greening of Gujarat: Unsung Miracle of Sardar Sarovar’, Indian Express, 30 July 1997, online at <http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19970730/21150193.html>.
12. For key points of the Indo-US nuclear deal, see <http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Highlights-of-IndoUS-nuclear-deal/208405/>.
13. See, Indo-US Knowledge Initiative on Agricultural Research and Education: Draft Indian Proposal, online at <http://www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/international/pdfs/india_proposal.pdf>. See also, Kavitha Kuruganti, ‘The Indo-US Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture: An Overview’, Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, online at <http://www.csa-india.org/kiaworkshop/KIA_TOTAL/KIA_PAPERS/2.KIA-an%20overview-kkuruganti.pdf>.
14. See The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958; Act 28 of 1958, 11 September 1958, online at <http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/document/actandordinances/armed_forces_special_power_act_1958.htm>. See also, ‘Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act: A Study in National Security Tyranny’, South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre, online at <http://www.hrdc.net/sahrdc/resources/armed_forces.htm>.
15. See ‘Land Acquisition Act, 1984’, Government of India, Ministry of Law and Justice, online at <http://dolr.nic.in/hyperlink/acq.htm>.
16. See Paul Krugman, ‘A Country Is Not a Company’, Harvard Business Review, 1996.
1. See Kavita Joshi, ‘Irom’s Iron in the Soul’, Tehelka, 25 March 2005, online at <http://www.tehelka.com/story_main17.asp?filename=Cr032506_Iroms_iron.asp>.See also Shoma Chaudhury, ‘The Unlikely Outlaw’, Tehelka, 9 December 2006, online at <http://www.tehelka.com/story_main23.asp?filename=Ne120906 The_unlikely_CS.asp>.
2. See, ‘Maoists Attack Toll Rises to 55’, 16 March 2007, BBC News, online at <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6456989.stm>.