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'What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning?'
Combining brilliant insight and razor-sharp prose, Listening to Grasshoppers is Arundhati Roy's essential exploration of the political picture in India today. In these essays she takes a hard look at the underbelly of the world's largest democracy and shows how the journey that Hindu nationalism and neo-liberal economic reforms began together in the early 1990s is unravelling in dangerous ways.
Beginning with the state-backed killing of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, and ending with an analysis of the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai, Listening to Grasshoppers tracks the fault-lines that threaten to destroy India's precarious future and, along the way, asks fundamental questions about democracy itself - a political system that has, by virtue of being considered 'the best available option', been put beyond doubt and correction.
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Arundhati Roy is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, for which she was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997, and two collections of essays: The Algebra of Infinite Justice and An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire. She lives in New Delhi, India.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Arundhati Roy peels the gloss of India's success, a valuable insight in India's democracy. You will see through a lot of media trickery and governmental statements after reading this book. Recommended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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A powerful eyeopener into the corrupt world of Indian democracy, Roy writes beautifully on such an ugly topic.
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Arundhati Roy has written several excellent, hard-hitting books and articles in the past, dissecting the very fabric of Indian society and the march towards becoming a neo-liberal, capitalist, hindu-nationalist country. I was a little disappointed though given that most of what's contained herein I have read elsewhere, e.g. on the Internet. Perhaps I'm being unfair since the book is marketed as such (a collection of past essays) but I don't think it was too much to ask that some articles be extended/re-written in light of new events. Footnotes do not serve the purpose and I believe a whole book can be written to refute some of the book's claims in light of new events etc.
However, the book is still a wakeup call, a reality check for people both within and outside India. "India Shining" is largely a facade, a select group of people who are living the high life at the expense of the hundreds of millions of poor, who yearn to own their piece of land or business, to be able to feed and shelter their children and to be free from the clutches of the authoratarian, corrupt governments. Shiny shopping malls, high-rise buildings, the all singing and dancing Bollywood...they are NOT India!
However, the book is still a wakeup call, a reality check for people both within and outside India. "India Shining" is largely a facade, a select group of people who are living the high life at the expense of the hundreds of millions of poor, who yearn to own their piece of land or business, to be able to feed and shelter their children and to be free from the clutches of the authoratarian, corrupt governments. Shiny shopping malls, high-rise buildings, the all singing and dancing Bollywood...they are NOT India!
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