Globalisation of Dissent: An Appreciation of Post-Globalisation in Arundhati Roy

Abstract

Democracy in today's India is mortally threatened with the massive pervasion of corporatization, consumerism and privatization that penetrated Indian economy hand in hand with the advent of neo-liberal capitalism which is facilitated by the state under the garb of ‘development'. Natural resources like land, river, forest, and mountain across the country are being arbitrarily taken over by the multinational companies which are in direct collusion with the Government. This ‘progress project' has been allowed to get subtly integrated with the electoral process on which, theoretically speaking, the Indian democracy rests. This ushers in an unprecedented marginalisation of the already marginalised people, the Dalits and the Adivasis, who inhabit the rural India and whose lives depend mostly on the natural resources they are being robbed of.