Overview
''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.
- | Author: Arundhati Roy
- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Feb 04, 2010
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780141044095
- | ISBN-10: 0141044098
