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"People often don't understand the engine that drives corruption. Particularly in India, they assume government equals corruption, private companies equal efficiency. But government officials are not genetically programmed to be corrupt. Corruption is linked to power. If it is the corporations that are powerful, then they will be corrupt."

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About Arundhati Roy

Indian novelist, essayist, and activist whose debut novel The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize in 1997. She is also known for influential political essays on globalization, democracy, and environmental justice. Her work spans fiction, nonfiction, and public advocacy.

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