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Arundhati Roy talks about her new book on India, Broken Republic. Her brave essay on rebels in the northeast of the country previously appeared in Outlook. To be sure, I don’t always agree with her perspective on things—to say, as she does, for example, that India’s poor are no better off in the present reform era than before ignores not only facts on the ground but also the experiences of the people she purports to speak on behalf of. That being said, her writing on India stands as a necessary counterweight to pro-globalization evangelists in the mainstream English press.