"That complexity (of rural India) is being ripped apart by a brutal transformation," says Sainath, who will be teaching spring semester in the Program in South Asian Studies at Princeton University. "The neo-liberal transformation and its worship of markets has deepened inequality and strengthened the barbaric, while devastating, even destroying, the beautiful. Some of the world's finest schools of art, storytelling, weaving, pottery are in collapse, while reactionary bodies like some caste councils are stronger than they were two decades ago." http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/13/sainaths-challenge/ + + + vjp
