Large multinationals have become financialized, that is, they are regularly active in financial markets and draw financial profits.

Shareholders are the real owners of a publicly traded business, but management runs it.

‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’

He dragged his tin uniform case from under the bed and took out five ten-rupee notes.