“Mining, Adivasis and India’s Civil War”

Arundhati Roy in discussion with Felix Padel and Samarendra Das

Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, Sunday 5th June, 3-5pm


Arundhati Roy’s new book Broken Republic examines development in an emerging superpower. She discusses the environmental and political global effects of mining with Felix Padel, anthropologist and Visiting Lecturer at the Institute of Rural Management,Gujarat and Samarendra Das, journalist and film maker of Orissa whose joint book Out of this Earth exposes the effects of the aluminium industry on the environment.

In conjunction with “A Disappearing World – Ancient Traditions Under Threat in Tribal India”

An exhibition of photographs will be open until 25th June at the Brunei Gallery