Arundhati Roy investigates and denounces: the essential political essays of the Indian writer.
This volume brings together a wide selection of the best political and social texts written by the author. In these pages she addresses topics such as the warlike rhetoric that justifies wars; the foreign policy of the empires – American and Soviet –; political corruption; climate change; predatory capitalism; The terrorism; the social imbalances of India, that country that lives at the same time in several centuries, anchored in the past and projected towards the future; territorial conflicts between India and Pakistan; the power of the elites, the control of the land and the indiscriminate displacement of the population for the construction of large dams; the chiaroscuros of the figure of Gandhi; the nationalist drift in India; nuclear energy used for war purposes; the cracks of dem...read more