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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.
From the Publisher
Publisher : Penguin Hamish Hamilton (3 September 2020); Penguin Random House India
Language : English
Hardcover : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 0670094412
ISBN-13 : 978-0670094417
Item Weight : 330 g
Dimensions : 13 x 2.01 x 19.99 cm
Country of Origin : India
Net Quantity : 1 Piece
Importer : Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd
Packer : Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd
Generic Name : Book
Best Sellers Rank: #3,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #10 in Political Freedom & Security (Books) #11 in Essays (Books) #17 in Asian History (Books)
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