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Team Anna advocating un-Gandhian law: Arundhati

Economic Times - Jan 20, 2012
MUMBAI: Stating that the anti-corruption agitation by Team Anna is a "corporate-sponsored media campaign", writer Arundhati Roy today said that the law (Lokpal) they are advocating is "un-Gandhian". Roy also criticised Team Anna for keeping mum on ...

Book Review: Walking with the Comrades by Arundhati Roy

Blogcritics.org (blog) - Jan 3, 2012
My immediate reaction upon completing Arundhati Roy's Walking With The Comrades was a sense of sadness and futility. How could a country with as rich a cultural history as India be (seemingly) turning against its own people as it works arm in arm with ...

Team Anna Bill un-Gandhian: Roy

IBNLive.com - Jan 8, 2012
CHENNAI: The Jan Lokpal Bill that Team Anna is demanding is an “un-Gandhian piece of legislation” that would concentrate power in the hands of a few, writer Arundhati Roy has said. She also warned that such a bill could lead to an even more lopsided ...

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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Signed British Edition)

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The God of Small Things

by: Arundhati Roy
"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. "

The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale. . . .

Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family--their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).
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Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers

by: Arundhati Roy

"Gorgeously wrought...pitch-perfect prose...In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again."—Time Magazine

Combining fierce conviction, deft political analysis, and beautiful writing, this is the essential new book from Arundhati Roy.

This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism, and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy.
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Walking with the Comrades

by: Arundhati Roy

From the award-winning author of The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline exposé of brutal repression in India

In her latest book, internationally renowned author Arundhati Roy draws on her unprecedented access to a little-known rebel movement in India to pen a work full of earth-shattering revelations. Deep in the forests, under the pretense of battling Maoist guerillas, the Indian government is waging a vicious total war against its own citizens-a war undocumented by a weak domestic press and fostered by corporations eager to exploit the rare minerals buried in tribal lands.
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Bombay--London--New York

by: Amitava Kumar

When Amitava Kumar left Patna, India, he envisioned himself as an up-and-coming citizen of the world, leaving behind the confines of Indian traditions. Yet like the wave of exiles that preceded him, he found that once we leave our past, we are defined by it: in the U.S. he is pigeonholed by his appearance and quizzed about saris and arranged marriages.
"There is no beginning that is a blank page," writes Kumar. Circling the three capitals of the Indian diaspora, Bombay-London-New York.
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