'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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- Authors:
- Roy, Arundhati
- Year Published:
- 2010
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780141044095
- Number of Pages:
- 304
- Publication Date:
- 04/02/2010
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:
- 04/02/2010
- Place of Publication:
- London
- SKU:
- 9780141044095