Listening to Grasshoppers

Field Notes on Democracy

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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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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

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