Arundhati Roy Walks with the Comrades: Indias Resource Wars http://coto2.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/arundhati-roy-walks-with-the-comrades-indias-resource-wars/

Walking with the Comrades Gandhians with a Gun? Arundhati Roy plunges into the sea of Gondi people to find some answers.For every ton of iron ore mined by a private company, the Indian government gets a royalty of Rs 27 and the mining company makes Rs 5,000. In the bauxite and aluminum sector, the figures are even worse. We’re talking about daylight robbery to the tune of billions of dollars.

Enough to buy elections, governments, judges, newspapers, TV channels, NGOs and aid agencies. Over the past five years or so, the governments of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal have signed hundreds of Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with corporate houses, worth several billion dollars, all of them secret, for steel plants, sponge-iron factories, power plants, aluminum refineries, dams and mines. In order for the MoUs to translate into real money, tribal people must be moved. Therefore, this war.