From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and pressing dispatch from the heart of the crowd and the solitude of the writer's desk.
The
chant of "Azadi!"—Urdu for "Freedom!"—is the slogan of the freedom
struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation.
Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of
India against the project of Hindu Nationalism.
Even as Arundhati
Roy began to ask what lay between these two calls for Freedom—a chasm
or a bridge?—the streets fell silent. Not only in India, but all over
the world. The coronavirus brought with it another, more terrible
understanding of Azadi, making a nonsense of international borders,
incarcerating whole populations, and bringing the modern world to a halt
like nothing else ever could.
In this series of electrifying
essays, Arundhati Roy challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom
in a world of growing authoritarianism.
The essays include
meditations on language, public as well as private, and on the role of
fiction and alternative imaginations in these disturbing times.
The
pandemic, she says, is a portal between one world and another. For all
the illness and devastation it has left in its wake, it is an invitation
to the human race, an opportunity, to imagine another world.
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| Pages | 243 |
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- Category: English
- Pages: 243
- Stock: In Stock
- Model: STP-12159
- Weight: 500.00g
- ISBN: 978-0-421-47002-2
