Arundhati Roy
Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction – Arundhati Roy (Paperback)
- Publisher : Penguin Hamish Hamilton (3 September 2020)
- Language : English
- Format : Paperback
- ISBN-10 : 0670094412
- ISBN-13 : 978-0670094417
- Item Weight : 295 g
- Dimensions : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- Country of Origin : India
- Condition : New
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The chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom'-is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what the 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. Covid-19 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, Roy 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.
About the Author
God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (Paperback)
- Publisher : Penguin India; 1st edition (5 April 2002)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 356 pages
- ISBN-10 : 014302857X
- ISBN-13 : 978-9794614020
- Item Weight : 360 g
- Dimensions : 14 x 1.9 x 22 cm
- Country of Origin : India
- Generic Name : Book
- Condition : New
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Booker Prize winner ‘God of Small Things’ is a story about two children, Esthappen and Rahel. This was Arundhati Roy's debut novel, in which she throws light on certain facets of life in Kerala, highlighting issues of caste system, Keralite Syrian Christian lifestyle and communism. Esthappen and Rahel at a very young age come to learn about horrifying truth of life, as they are being tortured and blamed for every misfortune. Their less than perfect life gets infected by unexpected events. Though the novel begins with Esthappen and Rahel, most of its part holds wider stories of the political events shaping the state, their parents and relatives. The darker undertones in the life of twins get more evident, as secrets, bitterness and lies destroy their world. The heat-aching story of two innocent young children will surely keep you hooked till the end and leave you searching for more.
