The Shock Doctrine is a short film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein based on Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. It is a severely disturbing look at the rise of free markets and corporate hegemony on the shoulders of disaster. What Klein says is this: people are in a childlike state when in shock. In the aftermath of a disaster — natural or otherwise — large masses of people are in shock. Governments use this to their advantage to push policies through, policies which in normal times would have been rejected. (more…)
- I'm a poet from India and currently writer-in-residence at the University of Kent in England. My first collection City of Water was published by Sahitya Akademi earlier this month.
About City of Water:
From the preface by Keki N. Daruwalla:
City of Water is remarkable for its supple language and tensile strength. Her images are sharp and there is integrity about the core of feeling that propels the poem. One cannot spot any weak moments either in terms of emotion or language....Anindita Sengupta never lets a poem run away with her. Like all good poets, she is original both in her way with words and her personal angle of vision."
Get in touch: anu.sengupta[at]gmail.com 
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