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AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. by Arundhati Roy
Category: Philosophy and Religion
With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'freedom' - is the iconic chant of the Kashmiri freedom struggle. And now, while Kashmir's streets have been silenced, the irony is that this same anthem echoes ...Show more
Azadi - Freedom. Fascism. Fiction by Arundhati Roy
Category: Languages and Reference
With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'freedom' - is the iconic chant of the Kashmiri freedom struggle. And now, while Kashmir's streets have been silenced, the irony is that this same anthem echoe ...Show more
Broken Republic : Three Essays by Arundhati Roy
Category: Philosophy and Religion
War has spread from the borders of India to the forests in the very heart of the country. Combining brilliant analysis and reportage by one of India's iconic writers, "Broken Republic" examines the nature of progress and development in the emerging global superpower, and asks fundamental questions about ...Show more
Broken Republic: Three Essays by Arundhati Roy
Category: Australian History
There's an India we don't know about. Behind the public image of a country of astonishing growth, with swelling cities and a burgeoning middle class, there's a country at war with itself. For India's poor are being displaced on an industrial scale as companies move into rural areas to plunder their min ...Show more
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
Category: General Fiction
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 nati ...Show more
Capitalism - A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
Category: Culture
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. The rest of the population are ghosts within a system beyond their control. This includes the millions that live on less than $2 a day; or the hundreds of thousan ...Show more
Capitalism - A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
Category: Philosophy and Religion
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. The rest of the population are ghosts within a system beyond their control. This includes the millions that live on less than $2 a day; or the hundreds of thousan ...Show more
Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy by Arundhati Roy
Category: History
This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy. Beginning with the state-backed pogro ...Show more
Listening to Grasshoppers : Field notes on democracy by Arundhati Roy
Category: History
This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy. Beginning with the state-backed pogr ...Show more
My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy
Category: Languages and Reference
Collected essays and speeches from the bestselling, Booker-winning author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an incre ...Show more
The Architecture of Modern Empire by Arundhati Roy
Category: History
From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight back Over a lifetime spent at the frontline of solidarity and resistance, Arundhati Roy's words have lit a clear way through th ...Show more