Arundhati Roy on equity

The personal wealth of the top 587 richest people exceeds the national wealth of the poorest 135 nations combined.
Indian novelist Arundhati Roy (paraphrase), Sydney Peace Prize Lecture, November 3, 2004

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Listen to Roy's lecture [audio link will be there this week]
Interview this week with Arundhati Roy [audio]

[Roy's speech was a stinging indictment of the invasion of Iraq and the role of TNCs (transnational corporations) in profiting from the war and occupation. I'll post a link to the transcript as soon as it's online.]

Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, author of The God of Small Things, for which she won the Booker Prize.

The God of Small Things was a first book of the author, and (as of 2004) has been her only novel. The book, completed in 1996, took four years to write. Roy received half-a-million pounds in advances, and rights to the book were sold in 21 countries.

In 2002 she was convicted of contempt of court by the Supreme Court in New Delhi for accusing the court of attempting to silence protests against the Narmada Dam Project, but received only a symbolic sentence of one day in prison.

Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in May, 2004, for her work in social campaigns and advocacy of non-violence.
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