" AR:... So many major activists had turned into travel agents, just having to organize tickets
and money, flying people up and down. The forum suddenly declared, “Only nonviolence, no armed struggles...”
They had turned Gandhian.

JC: So anyone involved in armed resistance...

AR: All out, all out. Many of the radical struggles were out. And I thought, fuck this. My question is, if let's say, there are people who live in villages deep in the forest, four days' walk from anywhere, and
a thousand soldiers arrive and burn their villages and kill and rape people to scare them off their land because mining companies want it—what brand of nonviolence would the stalwarts of the establishment recommend? "

― Arundhati Roy , Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations