Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy has compared India of today to a plane moving in reverse and claimed that it was "headed for a crash".
She was speaking on Wednesday during the launch of the book Why do you fear my way so much?, a selection of poems and letters by jailed human rights activist G.N. Saibaba.
Ms. Roy said that from spearheading "truly revolutionary movements" in the 1960s for redistribution of wealth and land, the country's leaders were now seeking votes and winning elections by distributing "5 kg rice and 1 kg salt".
