An eye witness account by Roy's critical middle class admirer, Abhijit Dutta who attended the meeting of Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR) on the ‘War Against People’ in Mumbai "She is a writer. So she writes. Who does she write for? Who is the audience? Where does she publish? Do her exclusive 32 page essays appear in the monthly magazines published out of Dantewada (scribbled, one would imagine, in blood, on tendu leaves) or does it appear in magazines to the said middle class, who forks out the Rs. 20 that the essay costs? Would seminars like these, where she enters with a phalanx of photographers, where adoring fans (yes, fans. One woman, dressed in a blue cotton saree with tribal print, said breathlessly: I just want to touch her feet) wait with bated breath, attract anyone at all if she wasn’t popular? As a writer, to make any change at all, she needs to be read! Guess who, in this country of a billion, can read? The first name begins with an ‘M’ and the second with ‘C’. " Members of India's great middle class need to read the interesting account http://www.countercurrents.org/dutta070610.htm -- Dr. Nandkumar Kamat, GOA
