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AZADI
Fascism, Fiction & Freedom in the Time of the Virus
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With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time.
Azadi—Urdu for 'freedom'—is the iconic chant of the Kashmiri freedom struggle. And now, while Kashmir's streets have been silenced, the irony is that this same anthem echoes round the streets of the country that most Kashmiris view as their coloniser. What lies between the silence of one street and the sound of the other? Is it a chasm, or could it become a bridge?
In this series of penetrating essays on politics and literature, Arundhati Roy examines this question, challenging us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism. Azadi, she warns, hangs in the balance for us all.
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Azadi by Arundhati Roy is praised as a compelling collection of essays that reflect her solidarity and humanist perspective. Critics commend her passionate and eloquent indictment of Hindu nationalism's increasing authoritarianism, seeing it as a tour de force. The book is viewed as a powerful appeal for collective action to address and heal global issues.
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ISBN: 9780241996782
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 August 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 234g
Pages: 336
About the Author
Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and has been translated into more than forty languages, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2017. Roy has also published several works of non-fiction, including The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Listening to Grasshoppers and Broken Republic. She lives in Delhi.
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