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Power Politics
Arundhati Roy
Pages: 192Edition: Updated Edition
ISBN: 0-89608-669-0
Format: cloth
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author
of The God of Small Things, explores the politics of writing
and the human and environmental costs of development in Power Politics.
Roy challenges the idea that only experts can speak out on such urgent
matters as nuclear war, the privatization of India’s power supply by Enron—now
the center of a major national controversy over its corrupt business practices—
and the construction of monumental dams in India, which will dislocate millions
of people. “If [Roy] continues to upset the globalization applecart like
a Tom Paine pamphleteer, she will either be greatly honored or thrown in jail,”
wrote Pawl Hawken in Wired Magazine.
When the US responded to the unconscionable attacks of September 11 by preparing to wage a war on Afghanistan, Roy wrote an internationally acclaimed essay, “The Algebra of Infinite Justice,” calling on the world not to use violence against innocent people in Afghanistan. After the war began, she wrote another powerful challenge to the war, “War is Peace.” The essays were printed around the world and were discussed on ABC's Nightline, in Newsweek, and in the New York Times. The expanded edition of Power Politics includes the fully annotated versions of “The Algebra of Infinite Justice” and “War is Peace.”
Power Politics was a Book Sense 76 featured choice for November and December 2001 and was a Los Angeles Times “Discoveries” selection in October 2001.
Breaking News
Arundhati Roy Named One of Top 100 Global ThinkersArundhati Roy has been named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2011 by Foreign Policy magazine. In her profile, the magazine says, "[Roy] has put her finger on the very real cost of India's economic boom. "We are watching a democracy turning on itself, trying to eat its own limbs," she warns. The Global Thinkers were honored at a reception in Washington, DC, on December 1 at the historic Meridian House.
Roy is the award-winning author of many books, including The God of Small Things, Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, Power Politics, and Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers. Her more recent book is Walking with the Comrades.
Read the profile here: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/11/28/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,50#thinker94
Arundhati Roy
Click here to view Arundhati Roy's full Author PageArundhati Roy's novel The God of Small Things was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997. It sold over 6,000,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into over 20 languages. The recipient of the 2002 Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom, she was also granted the 2006 Sahitya Akademi Award for her book The Algebra of Infinite Justice, but refused the award to protest Indian governmental actions. Her nonfiction books include An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire (South End Press, 2004); War Talk (South End Press, 2003); Power Politics (South End Press, 2002); and The Cost of Living (Modern Library, 1998); and she discusses international politics further in The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Interviews with Arundhati Roy, with David Barsamian (South End Press, 2004). She is also the author of Field Notes for Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers (Haymarket Press) and Walking with the Comrades (Penguin). In 2011 Foreign Policy named her among 100 Top Global Thinkers. She lives in New Delhi, India.
Breaking News
Indian Government Authorizes the Arrest of Arundhati Roy on Charges of Sedition
from the LA Times, October 27, 2010
Arundhati Roy's dangerous Kashmiri cause
On Tuesday the Indian government took steps to authorize the arrest of author Arundhati Roy for "sedition" because of statements she has made about the territory of Kashmir. In response, Roy, a Booker Prize-winning novelist, says she has simply called for justice. "I said what millions of people here say every day," she said in a written statement e-mailed from Srinagar, Kashmir. Kashmir is the mountainous territory at the northern tip of India bordered... Read more here.