In eleven powerful, and closely argued, linked essays, Arundhati Roy takes ahard look at the underbelly of the world s largest democracy. Beginning withthe state-backed killing of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, she writes about how progress and genocide have historically gone hand in hand; about the murkyinvestigations into the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament; about the dangersof an increasingly powerful and entirely unaccountable judiciary; and about thecollusion between large corporations, the government and the mainstreammedia. The volume ends with an account of the August 2008 uprising inKashmir and an analysis of the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai. The Briefing , included as an appendix, is a compelling fictional text that bringstogether many of the issues central to the collection.QUOTES Searing, painful, chilling Noam Chomsky After so much celebratory salesmanship about India the emerging market , Roy draws us into India the actual country, peeling away thegloss. She is one of the most confident and original thinkers of ourtime Naomi Klein Arundhati Roy resists and denounces all tyrannies, pleads for their victims, and unflinchingly questions the tragic. Reflect with her on theanswers she receives from the political world today John Berger
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