The Mail and Guardian has an interview with Arundhati Roy. "As a writer, I want to shorten the distance between language and intent, between language and thought," she says. Amen to that, says the Babu. “We must talk of the politics of permanent resistance, not of governance." Still with you, says the Babu. And then: "We don’t think we’ll win, but we’ll have a bloody good time patrolling the borders of our own happiness, our joy.” The Babu must leave now. He feels an urgent need to locate his borders of happiness and joy.