Arundhati Roy was born in 1959 in Shillong, India. She studied architecture in Delhi and now resides there. Roy first gained international recognition in 1997 when her book, \"The God of Small Things,\" was published. Her first and only work of fiction to date, the book garnered her the prestigious Booker Prize. Later, in \"The Cost of Living,\" she condemned India\'s nuclear weapons testing and the displacement of its poor and indigenous citizens by the construction of massive hydroelectric dams. Most recently, her book \"Power Politics\" discusses the privatization of India\'s power supply and the politics of writing.
This program contains the speech entitled \"Confronting Empire\" that Arundhati Roy made at the World Social Forum in 2003.
\"It is a myth that free market breaks down national barriers. The free market does not threaten national sovereignt
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