THERE IS NO INDIA:

India’s Trail of Tears: To justify a land grab, Delhi has a new enemy—the Maoists. (Arundhati Roy, 1/17/10, In These Times)

The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa. The hills watched over the Kondh. The Kondh watched over the hills and worshipped them as living deities. Now these hills have been sold for the valuable bauxite they contain. For the Kondh it’s as though god had been sold. They ask how much god would go for if the god were Ram or Allah or Jesus Christ.

Thirty pieces of silver. And He was God, not a hill.

Posted by oj at January 18, 2010 6:31 AM
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