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Power Politics | Praise
“The
scale of what Roy surveys is staggering.…Her pointed indictment of India's
hydroelectric industry—which has very little to show for the destruction
it has wrought—is devastating.”
—Alex Abramovich, New York Times Book Review
“An
insightful discussion of
—Gene Hayworth, Lyrical Ink
“Writers
have proved when they turn their back to power and start to feel the pulse and
pain of society, they become powerful. This is the power beyond power that Arundhati
Roy brings forth in Power Politics.”
—Vandana Shiva
“The novelist Arundhati Roy…has emerged as India's most impassioned critic
of globalization and American influence.”
—New York Times
“Arundhati
Roy's essays evoke a stark image of two Indias being driven in "resolutely opposite
directions," a small India on its way to a "glittering destination" while the
rest "melts into the darkness and disappears"—a microcosm of much of the
world, she observes, though "in India your face is slammed up against it." Traced
with sensitivity and skill, the unfolding picture is interlaced with provocative
reflections on the writer's mission and burden, and inspiring accounts of the
"spectacular struggles" of popular movements that "refuse to lie down and die."
Another impressive work by a fine writer.”
—Noam Chomsky
“Can it be that the Supreme Court of the world's largest democracy [India]
will reveal itself to be biased against free speech and be prepared to act at
the bidding of a powerful interest group - the coalition of political and financial
interests behind the Narmada Dam? Only by abandoning its pursuit of Arundhati
Roy and the Narmada Valley campaigners can the Supreme Court escape such a judgment.”
—Salman Rushdie, writing in the New York Times
about the Supreme Court case against Arundhati Roy, described in Power Politics
“Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful
commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays.”
—Howard Zinn
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