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AZADI - Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. (Paperback)
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AZADI - Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. (Paperback)
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Loot Price R169
Discovery Miles 1 690
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The perfect gift for the activists, rebels and freedom fighters in
your life... FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF MY SEDITIOUS HEART AND
THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS, A NEW AND PRESSING DISPATCH FROM
THE HEART OF THE CROWD AND THE SOLITUDE OF A WRITER'S DESK 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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