Listening to Grass-Hoppers: Field Notes on Democracy
By Arundhati Roy.
Description
Combining brilliant political insight and razor-sharp prose, arundhati roy in these essays, takes a hard look at the underbelly of the world's largest democracy, and shows how the journey that hindu nationalism and neoliberal economic reforms began together in the early 1990s is unraveling in dangerous ways beginning with the state-backed killing of muslims in gujarat in 2002, she writes about how 'progress' and genocide have historically gone hand in hand; about the murky investigations into the 2001 attack on the indian parliament; about the dangers of an increasingly power...
ISBN(s)
0670083798, 9780670083794
