Capitalism: A Ghost Story - An Evening with Arundhati Roy and Siddhartha Deb
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- The School of Writing (www.newschool.edu/writing) at The New School (www.newschool.edu) and Haymarket Books (www.haymarketbooks.org) present a reading and conversation with Siddhartha Deb, and acclaimed novelist and essayist Arundhati Roy on the occasion of the launch of her new book Capitalism: A Ghost Story (Haymarket Books).
From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country's 100 richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India's gross domestic product. Capitalism: A Ghost Story examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India, and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism has subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation.
Arundhati Roy was born in 1959 in Shillong, India. She studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She has worked as a film designer and screenplay writer in India. Roy is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize. The novel has been translated into dozens of languages worldwide. She has also written several non-fiction books, including The Cost of Living, Power Politics, War Talk, An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, and Public Power in the Age of Empire. Roy was featured in the BBC television documentary Dam/age, which is about the struggle against big dams in India. A collection of interviews with Arundhati Roy by David Barsamian was published as The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile. She is a contributor to the Verso anthology Kashmir: The Case for Freedom. Her newest books are Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers and Capitalism: A Ghost Story, published by Haymarket Books, and Walking with the Comrades, published by Penguin. Roy is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize.
Siddhartha Deb, who teaches creative writing at The New School, is the author of two novels: The Point of Return, which was a 2003 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and An Outline of the Republic. His reviews and journalism have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, New Statesman, n+1, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is also the author of The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India.
John L. Tishman Auditorium (U100), University Center
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 7:00 pm
I am again watching this after demolition of slum by railway and it's making it more sense day after day. Here life doesn't matter. Only Capital matters.
+sonaram tudu ther is hope brother...3d printed home technology will force governments to build affordable housing..transform the slums...the people will demand it..the builders will not want it..there will be revolution..learn about 3d printed homes...the chaakra the spinning wheel on the indian flag is a 3d printer!!
***** im talking about transforming slums into homes with a planned structural city because building walls with 3d printers will be cheaper...
`I am sure you donate half your salary for development of slum dwellers.
Support slum dwellers political movements
Fuck developers and politicians who won't allocate affordable housing and 3d printed cities for the working class
she is so enlightening and courageous
Hmmm. I dont see it.
Tenzin Sangmo this is joke?
@@mohamedalyahudi3865 - Keep trying, it will be worth it when you see the light
A truly aware human being.
This is my third visit to this video. She is amazing.
Yeah sometimes even childrens books have to be read 3 to 4 times.
Rillance of Mukesh Ambani is build by Dhirubhai Bai Ambani why Arndhiti Roy not ,If Arundhati,s parent don't set a business it is not fault of Ambani
Gandhi is a fake mahatma
She is a hero of the Indian people and a role model and inspiration to people worldwide. I hope more people support her and help bring about justice and prosperity to all of India. It's clear that just like in Bangladesh, Western corporations are looting the poor and vulnerable. India will soon have to change its name to India Ltd. I hope people wake up and fight as a united people.
You are absolutely 100% right. She is my hero too. She is my sister in humanity. I pray for her health and long life.
She is amazing, keep going and point things out
Starts around 5:04
What any irony 2.6% of Baniyas controls the controls the entire economy sparing less than 0.5% of Parsees with less than 1.2% of Brahmins dominate and influence the bureaucracy rules India in the name of democratic secular India. Post reading few books of Ms. Roy (God of Small Things and Annihilation of Caste) I found even today 93% members in Loksabha is Brahmins and Baniyas, Judges are Brahmins, Major Editors of all Print and Visual Media again Brahmins etc etc....Roy is correct its not democracy its the rule of uppercaste over the backward caste.
haha lol at ur knowledge ..!! ..there is 27% n 38 % reservations for sc/st in lok sabha n rajya sabha respectively ..!! many leaders judges n educational chiefs r not brahmins ,baniyas nor parsis ..pls hav some common sense before commenting ..!!
all_sun75 you need to stop talking ganja wake up
@vadi raj
Please share the numbers please. Have some sense before commending :D
Democracy does not mean equal results. It only means equal opportunity
Mam I'm reading your book Ministry of utmost happiness.
Stunning and shocking. Excellent presentation on how global capitalism has become corporate colonialism with India as an example. The US is not far behind in this. We are being corporate colonized as well. Corporate colonialism/capitalism doesn't need a large rich middleclass to succeed. It does need a large poor one though. It also needs easy access to resources at little cost.
This is a theme which can bring together the peoples of East and West. The peoples of the world are set against each other by globalized capital. Its high time we got together . The capitalists are way ahead on that. That is how they have manipulated, and subjugated the working people of the world.
Sreenidhi Banavara
There are more "communists" as you call them in West Europe than East. In the East they are mesmerized by the baubles of materialism offers the vacuous . And yes that's a good thing. Anti socialists are wicked stupid people, Destroying our world, and humanity. So whats your problem ? You want to defend the wicked ?
Sreenidhi Banavara
If its crony socialism, then its not socialism, and you should not discredit the idea or word with such as your first post.
I do not accept the argument of having wealth to be against somebody who speaks for socialism. It is illogical. If most wealthy people argued against low tax for example; then their would be higher tax.
People who are poor must be also ignored in this argument, because "They are only envious" or some such nonsense.
I would like to know what level of income I am allowed to have to argue against capitalism in the view of those who argue; too rich- too poor. to listen to, or be credible.
I listen to the ladies arguments, and most she says sounds good, and correct. Facts stand on their own merits. It is NOT the messenger it is the information. Attacking the messenger is a distraction and rightly disqualified from intellectual discussion. Ad hominy
Beautiful and petite with a massive brain, a massive understanding and a massive caring.
Mam I am reading your book the mintry of utmost happiness
mom i sew your first speech about capitalism. i wounder like that. I'm diganathan, teacher, from sri lankan tamil.
She is amazing!!!! And very much needed to keep us all awake!! Period!!!
stupid comment, typical of the new Indian upcoming new middle class, terrifying!
When in this civilzation people talk about caring a little for the others they are labeled as being a communist, that is what the armican dream has done to the world, despising anything that is not succesful, a bible in one hand and a gun in the other
Sekhar s
She would starve if she didn't participate in Capitalism. It's not a choice in this world. Capitalism is a form of dictatorship beginning with the dictator you work for, if you're not self-employed.
Ganga Din
You might want to pick up a history book and while you're at it, read "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith.
Ganga Din
Try reading it slowly this time with an adult who can explain it.
The simplicity of her expression is so profound and so penetrating ,even her diehard critique,will be forced to think if not agree.
I have a question if at all she reads.What solutions she is offering to a failed capitalism,and a failed communism in India.
Enlightening!!
Arudhati and her kind are the only hope for humanity
Ah. A sad day for you?
@@mohamedalyahudi3865 - I don't detect any sadness in Rajendra's observation. But in any case, fear not. Even if Rajendra is a little sad, he will no doubt find hope and encouragement in Roy's writing.
Everbody has a price... it's just that the right price has not been set or offered.
Here comes the hit arundhooti roy
I am from India 🙏 💓 congratulations to you
The debate over different political ideologies and philosophies which have been constantly at loggerheads with each other is premised on the questions regarding the distribution of power and resources. There is no doubt that capitalism is not a perfect political system that will eventually solve all our societal problems. It has over a period of time shown that income inequality has been a great cause for concern for the flag bearers and followers of capitalism. We have also seen what happened in 2007-2008 during the global financial crisis what an extreme form of capitalism can do. Highlighting the flaws of one system does not however, make other alternate systems perfect. Communism has had its own share of problems because of which, it resulted in the collapse of erstwhile USSR and the adoption of capitalism as an economic policy in China, even though politically they have been communist. After the collapse of USSR, India opened its market to the world as they had ran out of options. They were facing a balance of payment of crisis and hence it did not have enough forex reserves for its imports. They had to liberalize the market to sustain the economy which is somewhat getting misrepresented here. On the contrary, we if look at the rate at which unemployment has reduced post 1991, it is at a much greater speed than when we were socialists. The reason why we have income inequality is because of a poor infrastructure of human capital. Education needs to be improved if this gap between the haves and havenots needs to be bridged.
very difficult to get out from illusion of religion, nation state patriotism, spoken language, race , capitalsim ,holy human species... after removing that only life can respect life!!
Such people save socity
Arundhati Roy sharing her understanding of the way she has seen India
Ambedkar was neglected by Nehru family. As Ambedkar was smarter and aggressive competition to Nehru
Her maruti suzuki story is true. But she convininently forgets the Japanese mgmt of suzuki wanting to stop the strike by hook or crook
She misses an important point- Mukesh Ambani made so much money because he was protected from competition of the global markets by the Indian politicians and have access capital of Indian tax payers money. Ms Roy enjoys all the goodies of capitalism
such is the nature of monopoly capitalism, which is the end result of free market competitive capitalism
Ambanism!
Mukesh Ambani big fraud
Gandhi had never claimed himself to be a perfect man or a sort of little god. He was a common man with all the desire and proclivity that a common man can possess.In fact, Gandhi had many shortcoming just as we have it , but the most important thing is how he transformed himself and become a torch-bearer for non-violence. Most importantly , if we fail to understand how he got transformed , probably we will fail to understand non violence in its entirety. To reach such a state of non violence perhaps we have to ignore many more short comings not just of Gandhi , but of other as well as ourselves. That is the first gate for non violence , but the other way is just pick up a gun!
time code please
There is no hindu nationlism , theres only nationalism. It may be true that some religions may not be nationalistic.
Arundhanti . Have you compared top 100 rich ppls wealth in other countries. ?
cool
If Govt intends truly, it can make all people rich equally.
According to her close industries no dam solar energy not affordable please give solutions
500 M mass movement is neither official nor over a short tenor but over decades...
sense of humour....haha..look at that guy
She should meet Ayn rand............They can have a communist capitalist debate till they grow really old.
I think, contrary to that opinion, they would get along really well and understand each other and probably walk away with a couple of things to ponder about. Maybe.
At least this lady has got the guts to go against Indian lackadaisical approaches and faulty system. I'll compare her to legendary Bhagat Singh.
Whts wrng with cast
Micro credit has not come to east from west. It was always there in east for thousands of years. History does not start from the point when one learns English.
this lady reminds me of lisa bonet! so similar in features and even character! eerie...
If condition like this am a Himachali . peoples sold there land with high price to industry
industries develop on land not in air. why every state want industrial package
am wonder, she is still alive after reveling such facts about big people in India,
I thought someone should b divide her body from her soul.....
anyhow nice to see her again ...
She has GUTS , Sir
+suresh anapurapu ha ha if some people dismember her it becomes world wide issue. She is known internationally.
@@Manojrgulalkai nothing will happen because nobody likes communism . Communism already died from all most all countries.
Hi, i thought whatever, Arundati said its correct or wrong ....before manipulating we i couldn't understood why she spoken out of India... why she has stand on India media spoken against all corp orates with mobilized public through writing and activists work instead of going out side of country ...speaking out ,its similar to other industrialist which is doing the same in own country as a basis of creating a job....
Q: Any advice for the anti-capitalist movement in America?
Arundahthi: I'm really bad at GIVING or TAKING advice. so no advice!!!
Q: Any advice for a struggling writer?
Arundhathi: NEVER ASK ANYONE FOR ADVICE!!
Great lady
why we call elite ?
Ambedkar is too higher in level to her for her to even speak about him analytically. She should just bow to him and leave at it. Using Ambedkar to abuse hinduism or Gandhi is sick.He took up Buddhism almost to protest both muslim and hindu religions and let ppl think above religions.
She is a convent educated in catholic school. Her praising of Bhagat Singh is only in comparson to Gandhi. Her answer would be different for Singh vs Nehru. Gandhi bashing has become fashionable as he was a devote moderate hindu. Nehru family is anglosized.
She says "Nobody knows who burned the hindus in train in Gujrat" Sure..they burnt themselves..
The failure of the US is not capitalism as we have adopted the Ten planks of the Communist manifesto in whole or majority it is the failure of Socialist /Communist principals.
First Plank: Abolition of property in land and the application of all rents of land to public purposes. (Zoning - Model ordinances proposed by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover widely adopted. Supreme Court ruled "zoning" to be "constitutional" in 1921. Private owners of property required to get permission from government relative to the use of their property. Federally owned lands are leased for grazing, mining, timber usages, the fees being paid into the U.S. Treasury.)
Second Plank: A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. (Corporate Tax Act of 1909. The 16th Amendment, allegedly ratified in 1913. The Revenue Act of 1913, section 2, Income Tax. These laws have been purposely misapplied against American citizens to this day.)
Third Plank: Abolition of all rights of inheritance. (Partially accomplished by enactment of various state and federal "estate tax" laws taxing the "privilege" of transferring property after death and gift before death.)
Fourth Plank: CONFISCATION OF THE PROPERTY OF ALL EMIGRANTS AND REBELS. (The confiscation of property and persecution of those critical - "rebels" - of government policies and actions, frequently accomplished by prosecuting them in a courtroom drama on charges of violations of non-existing administrative or regulatory laws.)
Fifth Plank: Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. (The Federal Reserve Bank, 1913- -the system of privately-owned Federal Reserve banks which maintain a monopoly on the valueless debt "money" in circulation.)
Sixth Plank: Centralization of the means of communications and transportation in the hands of the State. (Federal Radio Commission, 1927; Federal Communications Commission, 1934; Air Commerce Act of 1926; Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938; Federal Aviation Agency, 1958; becoming part of the Department of Transportation in 1966; Federal Highway Act of 1916 (federal funds made available to States for highway construction); Interstate Highway System, 1944 (funding began 1956); Interstate Commerce Commission given authority by Congress to regulate trucking and carriers on inland waterways, 1935-40; Department of Transportation, 1966.)
Seventh Plank: Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. (Depart-ment of Agriculture, 1862; Agriculture Adjustment Act of 1933 -- farmers will receive government aid if and only if they relinquish control of farming activities; Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933 with the Hoover Dam completed in 1936.)
Eighth Plank: Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies especially for agriculture. (First labor unions, known as federations, appeared in 1820. National Labor Union established 1866. American Federation of Labor established 1886. Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 placed railways under federal regulation. Department of Labor, 1913. Labor-management negotiations sanctioned under Railway Labor Act of 1926. Civil Works Administration, 1933. National Labor Relations Act of 1935, stated purpose to free inter-state commerce from disruptive strikes by eliminating the cause of the strike. Works Progress Administration 1935. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, mandated 40-hour work week and time-and-a-half for overtime, set "minimum wage" scale. Civil Rights Act of 1964, effectively the equal liability of all to labor.)
Ninth Plank: Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country. (Food processing companies, with the co-operation of the Farmers Home Administration foreclosures, are buying up farms and creating "conglomerates.")
Tenth Plank: Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production. (Gradual shift from private education to publicly funded began in the Northern States, early 1800's. 1887: federal money (unconstitutionally) began funding specialized education. Smith-Lever Act of 1914, vocational education; Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 and other relief acts of the 1930's. Federal school lunch program of 1935; National School Lunch Act of 1946. National Defense Education Act of 1958, a reaction to Russia's Sputnik satellite demonstration, provided grants to education's specialties. Federal school aid law passed, 1965, greatly enlarged federal role in education, "head-start" programs, textbooks, library books.
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capitalism in its worst form devastated Pakistan from 1999 to 2017! but Pakistan has a way out as the constitution and resulting laws are against usury and gambling the foundations of capitalism. All India Muslim League was anti-capitalist while All India Congress was. that wasent the reason of 1947 partition of United India
No comments allowed!
Why this people against success, people do business for success not failure.
She is ok to be seiged by unilever/ nestle/ p and g but is afraid of seiged by Tatas. Why ??
Mukesh Ambani, created 4G telecom company call jio, which provided 4G data for as less as 15 cents/ GB. In six months period 110 million people joined jio services, before 6 month India didn't have even a million people, using 4G services. Many poor people were left out of internet. Many poor had their first point of contact to Internet due to cheap services of JIO. All the state owned companies are in deep losses. Government is asking private companies to takeover them. Same Mukesh Ambani company one of the biggest employer in India. Infact, we as a nation we need more of capitalism
Yash Mehta The drug dealer must first create the addiction before he gradually starts profiting from selling the drug.
Antonio de Cruz Hey ignorant commie, if you further go back to the history of telecommunications in India, back in early 2000s reliance infocom made telecom significantly cheaper and within the reach of the common man. And today even a poor guy also has a mobile phone because of that. Obviously he cares about the profit, but his strategy made mobile telephony affordable to an average Indian, and he is repeating the same thing now with mobile Internet. It's just that you're a pessimist creature who is a failure in life. That you see everything negatively.
every one talks of symptoms of political default.........we need people who can correct these
Arundhanti. In media you conviniemtly forgot NDTV types
What an earth is all this about ?
Bagatsing is greater than Gandhi the supporter of caste system
the people Ms Roy are always trying to convince people abroad on what is needed in India. perhaps she should travel in india and tell people why Kashmir is not part of india, why Hinduism is a terrible religion and so forth. afterall if she wants to be a bit more than a noise polluter she needs to convince the right audience.
Sriram Shankar if only it were that easy. There are a lot of organizations and individuals out there that will come after your life and your friends. It's simply not safe.
l wish there is someone who can challenge her opinions.She goes to places on elite platforms speaking about lndia ..only criticising.She overexaggerates the intolerance..the hindus are most tolerant.never talks about muslim tolerance extremism or banning of salman rushidie or ttasleema nasreen her fellow writers..banned..fatwa against them..cant come to india..while she poses as if she is suffering.she continues to live in india..freely moving..
speaking against india n elsewhere.she enjoys..gets sponser...enjoying life..infact elite.
How did she know the rapist were Uppercast ? And those getting raped were lower cast ? Unenecssary assoicating any catastrophy to cast. She is dividing India. Her nain source of contempt seems to be some ppl are richer than her..
Ambani at least worked hard and created jobs. What did currupt Nehru family did ?
What hard work he did? Nothing. He inherited from his father who prospered bcz he was a great lobbyist. And it is the shareholders’ money which they used for business and loans from Banks.
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Indians though poor are not like medievel ppl in europe. She is exaggerating 1% population.
critic easy . give solutions
She is only stating problems. A villager like Anna Hazare is the real reformist.
Please highlight what are the solution, its fashionable for the upmarket community in India to continously keep blaming the system. Arundhati Roy has lost ground in her own country.
In usa which is the most advanced and powerful country, communist party is banned forget about maoist far left armed groups.
That coming from someone who lives in Lutyens' Delhi, charges a bomb to write an article, and enjoys all the possible merits of Capitalism. Sigh.
Neil lalwani I'd say it's money well spent. People do not complain about a thousand rupees coffee but throw up rants when it comes to paying for some good literature. Priorities I guess.
To call any state in india as uppercast hindu state is hillarious. Upper cast by definition is minority.
Its shameful the an indian orginated man ( anchor) does not know whats an unorganised sector. Becoming a mufllered, gay sounding metrosexual should not remove your bond with your ancestors land
Why you need to seek confirmation from a foreign orgabisation about an indian literary festivals ? There you go thats her undelying problem.
Either you look for opportunities which are available in India now and do something purposeful in your life or listen to rabble rousers like Arundhati Roy and be a victim all your life ! Yes, many things are not right in India, but Arundhati Roy cannot cherry pick issues in India ! Why just pick on Hindus who have made it big in the Corporate world ? The jews have been controlling world economy for years ! The church always had billions and everyone knows what they use it for ! She stays in the most exclusive part of Delhi with incredible real estate values and talks about the poor ! What an hypocrite ! The question that she should be asking why so many states in India ,ruled by leftist, socialist and communist parties still have such appalling poverty ??
Fantastic literary skills alas with bad motives
Her problems with deforestation is about villagers getting jobs and moving away from communism.. Australia has built an economy on minerals.
Australia did not dislocate indigenous or other people for mineral extraction from land.
She is a good writer and she is using her skill to make money from the highest paying org. She is not an honest journalist . She is just doing it for the money.She will say anything for the money. Someone should expose her.Many people fall for her sweet talk. She is smart and some suckers fall for it.
I haven't seen any US citizen coming to India and giving speeches on various Indian forums about what is wrong with US. This woman is really the 8th wonder of the world. Attention seeker anti-nationalist is the best way to describe her.
haters gonna hate
actually its bitter but very much true. People who go by Analysis logic reason and question the state will always b called Antinational because they concern more about Humanity than being nationalist.
I was wondering where the chutiyas are.
what´s wrong with being anti-national?
Because in the U.S dissent is allowed. You could speak about the problems America has in America itself without worrying about a bunch of goons knocking on your door to lynch you. The most that's going to happen is a Twitter storm. That's the difference in freedoms between the two countries. And the kind of anti-dissent atmosphere is fueled by bigots like you. Rise above.
Look at the satisfaction this lady gets by sharing problems of her country with other coutries. Its amazingly pointless
She has no solution to the problems of Indian poor except being invited to talk about them and enjoy high fly and staying in star hotels.
So she has to go there in a bullock cart and sleep on the street to give the speech?
+Prasanth Valsan 😂😂 👍👍
@@prasanthalpha the biggest irony is that, she has gone to a which itself a capitalist County and in that country becoming a member of communist party is a crime. But in our country communist party can still operate freely.
she should be sent to North Korea, where everything is owned by government, even the people are also owned by government. She will get salvation under Kim Jong un
Yash Mehta still muah better then India . stop criticism of North Korean you aren't american you are a fucking India .
She is no good. Only speaks well but there is no substance in her speech.