Endurance

With American banks now engaged in laundering simoleons for Colombian drug dealers and Russian arms traffickers, the globalized flow of moolah has made consumerism a truly cosmopolitan pastime. Indeed, as US boodle pours overseas to keep Chinese merchandise on the shelves of dollar stores, our consumer indebtedness even provides employment for call center operators in India. Looting the world, as it were.

Arundhati Roy talks about India's killing season, and an economic elite that has seceded into outer space.