AN Roy
AN Roy
Anami Narayan Roy was the Director General of Police, Maharashtra, India and the former Police Commissioner of Mumbai...
taken mean democracy
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.
war home sight
The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place.
hair hands perfect
He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.
stories littles ordinary-things
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
war bombs matter
Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.
positive war ideas
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
people patriotism brain
Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
choices alternatives world
Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World
past done destroying
Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.
punishment cupboards
Some things come with their own punishments.
business war hegemony
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.
people come-up crisis
The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution
horse trojans used
NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.
beautiful writing world
Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.