Disappearing World Forum Q&A Session with Arundhati Roy, held at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2013-01-08

A public forum with Arundhati Roy, whose new book Broken Republic examines the nature of progress and development in an emerging global superpower, in discussion with Felix Padel & Samarendra Das, authors of Out of This Earth (2010), which reveals the hidden finance and arms trade behind the aluminium industry connecting London to war-torn central India.

Moderator: Vinita Damodaran Senior Lecturer in South Asian History, University of Sussex

This forum was in conjunction with 'A Disappearing World: Ancient Traditions Under Threat in Tribal India' an exhibition in 2011 at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London.

Further details can be found at http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/disappearingworld/ and http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/disappearingworld/05jun2011-burning-ground-mining-adivasis-and-indias-civil-war.html