Recently in war Category

'The terse, typewritten note slipped under my door in a sealed envelope confirmed my appointment with India's Gravest Internal Security Threat. I'd been waiting for months to hear from them. I had to be at the Ma Danteshwari mandir in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, at any of four given times on two given days. That was to take care of bad weather, punctures, blockades, transport strikes and sheer bad luck. The note said: "Writer should have camera, tika and coconut. Meeter will have cap, Hindi Outlook magazine and bananas. Password: Namashkar Guruji."' Read on at Outlook

The acclaimed Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy spoke to Democracy Now's Amy Goodman about President Barack Obama, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, India and Kashmir and much more. Roy also spoke about her journey deep into the forests of central India to report on the Maoist insurgency.