Capitalists control the world. However, irrespective of what the ideology we followed, we should not support the form of capitalism prevailing in India, which “is worse than that in the West,” writer and activist Arundhati Roy has said. She was in the city on Sunday for the release of the Telugu translation of her book, Capitalism — A Ghost Story.
According to Ms Roy, capitalists buy everything and make profits out of it and foundations sponsored by the corporations were colonising the world yet again. “The Unique Identity initiative and digitisation of land records by the government was all about converting a huge section of population illegible to the digital age, digitisation of the common and legitimisation of poor,” Ms Roy said. She also took a dig at Anna Hazare and team, including Kiran Bedi and Arvind Kejriwal, saying all of them and their anti-corruption movements were funded immensely by the capitalist foundations which aim at controlling the world legally.
“We are made out to be stuck, judgemental, over-critical, incapable of working with each other, and incapable of really thinking how to break this caste system, which is perfectly positioned for the capitalists to rule,” said the Booker Price winner. Dr P.M. Bhargava, former director, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), who released the book, cited various examples of capitalist domination in present day society.