ID | 016787 |
Call Number | 828.91409/ROY |
Title Proper | Shape of the beast: conversations with Arundhati Roy |
Language | ENG |
Author | Roy, Arundhati |
Publication | New Delhi, Penguin Group, 2008. |
Description | ix, 271p Black Spine |
Note | The Shape of the Beast is our world laid bare by a mind that has consistently and unhesitatingly engaged with its changing realities and often anticipated the way things have moved in the last decade. In the fourteen interviews collected here, conducted between January 2001 and March 2008, Arundhati Roy examines the nature of state and corporate power as it has emerged during this period, and the shape that resistance movements are taking. As she speaks about people displaced by dams and industry, the genocide in Gujurat, Maoist rebels, the war in Kashmir and the global War on Terror, she raises fundamental questions about democracy, justice and non-violent protest.Unabashedly political, this is also a deeply personal collection that talks about the necessity of taking a stand and about the dilemma of guarding the private space necessary for writing in a world that demands urgent, unequivocal intervention. |
Note | SCIMITARS IN THE SUN Scimitars in The Sun / N. Ram THE CHEQUEBOOK AND THE CRUISE MISSILE The Colonization of Knowledge / David Barsamian Terror and The Maddened King / David Barsamian Development Nationalism / David Barsamian Globalization of Dissent / David Barsamian Seize The Time! / David Barsamian THE SHAPE OF THE BEAST The Outline of The Beast / Anthony Arnove The War that Never Ends / Anthony Arnove Independence Day Special / S. Anand The Question of Violence / Amit Sengupta I Hope Kashmir Will be in All The Books I Write ... / P.G. Rasool There's A Fury Building Up ... / Shoma Chaudhury Choosing Our Weapons / Shoma Chaudhury Ten Years On ... / Shoma Chaudhury |
Standard Number | 9780670082070 |
Price. Qualification | Rs.324.35(Hb) |
Classification Number | 828.91409 |
Key Words | Power (Social sciences) ; IBDP ; Essays ; Roy, Arundhati -- Interviews ; Government, Resistance to ; Roy, Arundhati - Conversations |