Listening to Grasshoppers - Field Notes on Democracy (Paperback)

'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.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Arundhati Roy
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-104409-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy Promotions
LSN:	0-14-104409-8
Barcode:	9780141044095

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