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1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 15 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Shaheen Khan. |
| Summary |
From the 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 a 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 has also become the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu Nationalism. What lies between these two calls for Freedom? A chasm or a bridge?In this series of penetrating essays on politics and literature, Arundhati Roy examines this question and challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism.Roy writes of the existential threat posed to Indian democracy by an emboldened Hindu nationalism, of the internet shutdown and information siege in Kashmir-the most densely militarized zone in the world-and India's new citizenship laws that discriminate against Muslims and marginalized communities and could create a crisis of statelessness on a scale previously unknown. "Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time." "Roy's…nonfictional engagement with the conflicts and traumas of a heedlessly globalized world has manifested the virtues of an unflinching emotional as well as political intelligence…In an age of intellectual logrolling and mass-manufactured infotainment, she continues to offer bracing ways of seeing, thinking, and feeling." "No writer today, in India or anywhere in the world, writes with the kind of beautiful, piercing prose in defense of the wretched of the earth that Roy does…Roy the essayist embodies the legalistic but humanistic ruthlessness of a public defender, the wit and wordplay of a poet, a comrade who takes no injustice as a given." |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
India -- Intellectual life.
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Hindutva -- India.
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India -- Civilization -- 21st century.
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India -- Politics and government -- 1977-
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India -- Social conditions -- 1947-
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| Added Author |
Khan, Shaheen, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781799924371 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1799924378 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14008196 |
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