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03.05.07, 09:01
Indie - rozwój w niebywałym tempie, w ostatnim roku stopa wzrostu 9%. Sky's the limit. Satelity, atomistyka, informatyka - nowe Indie na horyzoncie.
Ale pod spodem - jakby nie takie znów nowe. Dopiero teraz widać problemy, koszmarne nawyki odziedziczone chyba po starożytnosci. Ponura rzeczywistość przyśpieszonej, bezwzględnej globalistycznej industrializacji, w której liczba samobójstw rolników pozbawionych wszelkich środków do życia niedługo przekroczy już sto tysięcy.
Wywiad ze światowej renomy indyjską pisarką Arundhati Roy.
<<[Q] There is an atmosphere of growing violence across the country. How do you read the signs? In what context should it be read?
[A] You don’t have to be a genius to read the signs. We have a growing middle class, reared on a diet of radical consumerism and aggressive greed. Unlike industrializing Western countries, which had colonies from which to plunder resources and generate slave labor to feed this process, we have to colonize ourselves, our own nether parts. We’ve begun to eat our own limbs. The greed that is being generated (and marketed as a value interchangeable with nationalism) can only be sated by grabbing land, water and resources from the vulnerable. What we’re witnessing is the most successful secessionist struggle ever waged in independent India — the secession of the middle and upper classes from the rest of the country. It’s a vertical secession, not a lateral one. They’re fighting for the right to merge with the world’s elite somewhere up there in the stratosphere. They’ve managed to commandeer the resources, the coal, the minerals, the bauxite, the water and electricity. Now they want the land to make more cars, more bombs, more mines — supertoys for the new supercitizens of the new superpower.>>
Dalej:
<<[Q] You have been traveling a lot on the ground — can you give us a sense of the trouble spots you have been to? Can you outline a few of the combat lines in these places?
[A] Huge question — what can I say? The military occupation of Kashmir, neo-fascism in Gujarat, civil war in Chhattisgarh, MNCs raping Orissa, the submergence of hundreds of villages in the Narmada Valley, people living on the edge of absolute starvation, the devastation of forest land, the Bhopal victims living to see the West Bengal government re-wooing Union Carbide — now calling itself Dow Chemicals — in Nandigram. I haven’t been recently to Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, but we know about the almost hundred thousand farmers who have killed themselves. We know about the fake encounters and the terrible repression in Andhra Pradesh. Each of these places has its own particular history, economy, ecology. None is amenable to easy analysis. And yet there is connecting tissue, there are huge international cultural and economic pressures being brought to bear on them. How can I not mention the Hindutva project, spreading its poison sub-cutaneously, waiting to erupt once again? I’d say the biggest indictment of all is that we are still a country, a culture, a society which continues to nurture and practice the notion of untouchability. While our economists number-crunch and boast about the growth rate, a million people — human scavengers — earn their living carrying several kilos of other people’s shit on their heads every day. And if they didn’t carry shit on their heads they would starve to death. Some fucking superpower this.>>
Żeby nie było pomyłek: w tym ostatnim fragmencie mowa o milionie ludzi. To tylko fraza, niedotykalnych czyścicieli latryn jest w Indiach conajmniej kilkanaście milionów. Ostatnio zatrudniają się w gminach do tej pracy przedstawiciele wyższych kast, także muzułmanie i chrześcijanie - ale sami jej nie wykonują, pobierają pensje, a pracę zlecają niedotykalnym, którym płacą drobne sumy.
Rzeczywiście: supermocarstwo.
Cały wywiad pod:
www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=66&ItemID=12425
tinyurl.com/338uxg
www.indiaresource.org/issues/water/2003/images/washpic1.jpg