From the heart of a crowd | The Indian Express

From the heart of a crowd | The Indian Express

Written by Arundhati Roy |Updated: June 22, 2019 4:00:10 am

Roy is the author of ‘The God of Small Things’. Her most recent book is ‘Broken Republic’.

From the heart of a crowd

What I wrote was never meant as neutral commentary... My contribution to our collective refusal to obediently fade away

The opening of the Indian markets to international finance had created a new middle class — a market of millions — and had investors falling over themselves to find a foothold.

I find myself thinking of the essays in this book as pieces of laundry — poor people’s washing — strung out across the land-scape between these two monuments, interrupting the good news bulletins and spoiling the view.