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AZADI - Fascism, Fiction & Freedom in the Time of the Virus (Paperback)
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AZADI - Fascism, Fiction & Freedom in the Time of the Virus (Paperback)
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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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