[Shermy]

Arundhati Roy ping.

It is easy to dismiss critics like this Arundhati Roy as being leftists or anti-american zealots.

It is easy because that is what she is. She could have stated a few relevant things about farms, corporations, globalization. Instead she wraps it up in her tangential anti-Americanism, like a pol giving a stump speech. She seems most concerned about resuscitating the word "Empire" into a different context.

Citing Chavez in Venezuela shows that she follows the news in shallow fashion.

[Red Jones]

if what she says about suffering in India due to the WTO forcing imports onto them is true, then that is more important than her anti-american zeal. And since people around the world view the WTO as taking its marching orders from America, then in that context her prejudices against our country make some sense and we should re-consider this WTO strategy of globalism.

[swarthyguy]

Blah blah blah. Let's live in her economic world...some Mossadegh, Chavez, Castro heaven.

She has more appeal outside India. Meanwhile, economic integration between the US and India moves even faster, despite (or because of) the slowdown.