Arundhati Roy sits down with Avi Lewis for Al Jazeera's Fault Lines during a rare US appearance, working through the ground she has covered since The God of Small Things made her the first Indian woman to win the Booker Prize in 1997. Roy talks about her trip into the territory of India's Maoist insurgency, the subject of a recent essay, and about the military campaign New Delhi has launched against it. She and Lewis get into corporate land grabs tied to mega dam projects, the rise of Hindu nationalism, and her own conviction and brief imprisonment by India's Supreme Court for contempt over comments it called an insult to the court's dignity. The conversation widens to US and Indian policy after the Cold War, the war on terror, and the language of Islamophobia used to justify it. Shot as a straight two-person interview with no reenactment or narration, the film is essentially Roy laying out, point by point, how she connects dam politics in Chhattisgarh to drone strikes in Afghanistan.