Description: Azadi : Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus, Paperback by Roy, Arundhati, ISBN 1642597066, ISBN-13 9781642597066, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
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 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. The coronavirus 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, she 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.
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Book Title: Azadi : Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus (Expanded Second Edition)
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Topic: Globalization, Asia / General, Asia / India & South Asia, Essays
Publication Year: 2022
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Length: 7.5 in
Author: Arundhati Roy
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
