From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the
hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape
punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less
than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in
India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country's 100 richest
people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India's gross domestic
product.
Capitalism: A Ghost Story examines the dark side of democracy in
contemporary India, and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism
have subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms
of racism and exploitation.