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‘What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning?’ Combining brilliant insight and razor-sharp prose, “Listening to Grasshoppers” is Arundhati Roy’s essential exploration of the political picture in India today. In these essays, she takes a hard look at the underbelly of the world’s largest democracy and shows how the journey that Hindu nationalism and neo-liberal economic reforms began together in the early 1990s is unravelling in dangerous ways. Beginning with the state-backed killing of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, and ending with an analysis of the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai, “Listening to Grasshoppers” tracks the fault-lines that threaten to destroy India’s precarious future and, along the way, asks fundamental questions about democracy itself – a political system that has, by virtue of being considered ‘the best available option’, been put beyond doubt and correction.
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- Book Name : Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on DemocracyEdition : 1Author : Arundhati RoyPublisher : Penguin Group(CA)Category : PoliticsISBN-10 : 0141044098ISBN-13 : 9780141044095ASIN : 0141044098Pages : 304Language : EnglishPublish Date : 2010-01
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