Ignoring Arundhati Roy

IN Media Watch Briefs | 23/01/2012

Though authors are in the news, what with the Salman Rushdie and the Jaipur Lit Fest controversy refusing to die down, the visit of Arundhati Roy to Mumbai went largely unnoticed. She delivered the fourth Anuradha Gandhy Memorial Lecture in Mumbai on January 20 to a packed college audience. The title was “Capitalism: A Ghost Story”. She began by giving a vivid description of the building that has come to represent Indian capitalism, Mukesh Ambani’s 27-storey home. Though her utterances normally make news, only the Mumbai Mirror, reported what she said. The rest of the English language press ignored her speech. Is the Ambani presence in the media already being felt?

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