The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China or Turkey or Indonesia, India doesn't mow down its people. It doesn't kill people who are refusing to move. It just waits it out. It continues to do what it has to do and ignores the consequences.

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy : Interviews (ed. South End Press, 2004) - ISBN: 9780896087101