Essays
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.
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On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin) (Paperback)
Publisher: Lexicon
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Condition : New
ISBN: 9789380703688
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It took Charles Darwin more than twenty years to publish this book, in part because he realized that it would ignite a firestorm of controversy. On the Origin of Species first appeared in 1859, and it remains a continuing source of conflict to this day. Even among those who reject its ideas, however, the work's impact is undeniable. In science, philosophy, and theology, this is a book that changed the world. In addition to its status as the focus of a dramatic turning point in scientific thought, On the Origin of Species stands as a remarkably readable study. Carefully reasoned and well-documented in its arguments, the work offers coherent views of natural selection, adaptation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest, and other concepts that form the foundation of modern evolutionary theory.
The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran (Paperback)
Publisher: Lexicon
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9789380703213
Condition : New
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The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English by the artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran.
The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran?s best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as 'the Bard of Washington Street.' Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century.
