"Seize the Time!"
Arundhati Roy, International Socialist Review
Arundhati Roy is the celebrated author of The God of Small Things, winner of the prestigious Booker Prize. The New York Times calls her, "India’s most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence." She is the winner of the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom. Her latest books are The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile, with David Barsamian, An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire — both published by South End Press — and Public Power in the Age of Empire, published by Seven Stories Press.
DAVID BARSAMIAN is founder and producer of Alternative Radio based in Boulder, Colorado. His interviews and articles appear regularly in the ISR. He is the author of several books, including Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire, and The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting. He interviewed Arundhati Roy in Seattle in August 2004.
I’D LIKE to start with a quote from a recent interview I did with you, published in the July—August issue of the International Socialist Review. You said, "It’s that we’re up against an economic system that is suffocating the majority of the people in this world. What are we going to do about it? How are we going to address it?" So I thought that would be a really easy way to begin. What are we going to do about it, and how are we going to address it?
