DB: You were speaking to some students in New Mexico recently & you advised them to travel outside of the United States, to put their ears to the wall & listen to the whispering. What did you have in mind in giving them that kind of advice?
AR: That when you live in the United States , with the roar of the free market, the roar of this huge military power, the roar of being at the heart of the empire, it's hard to hear the whispering of the rest of the world. And I think many US citizens want to. I don't think that all of them necessarily are co-conspirators in the concept of empire. And those who are not need to listen to other stories in the world - other voices, other people.
Taken from Arundhati Roy's The Chequebook & the Cruise-Missile
Available at Casuarina Library.
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