New Releases by Arundhati Roy

El esperado regreso de una autora «superlativamente brillante» (The New York Review of Books). La premio Booker por El dios de las pequeñas cosas firma un poderoso memoir sobre su madre, un acontecimiento editorial mundial. «Una de las pensadoras más lúcidas y originales de nuestro tiempo». --Naomi Klein «Una novelista de finísima sensibilidad. Arundhati Roy es una cazadora de historias de vida».--Javier del Pino, Cadena SER Destrozada por la muerte de su madre y, al mismo tiempo, desconcertada y «más que un poco avergonzada» por la intensidad de su reacción, Arundhati Roy comenzó a escribir estas memorias en un intento de comprender sus sentimientos hacia la madre de la que huyó a los dieciocho años, «no porque no la amara, sino para poder seguir amándola». Así empieza esta historia asombrosa, el libro que Roy lleva «escribiendo toda la vida», un texto radicalmente honesto, divertido y profundamente conmovedor. Con la amplitud, el alcance y la profundidad de novelas tan icónicas como El dios de las pequeñas cosas, este libro es un canto a la libertad y un homenaje al amor espinoso, un último abrazo entre madre e hija. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Finalist for the Kirkus Prize A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati''s life both as a woman and a writer. Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy''s first work of memoir, is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as "my shelter and my storm." "Heart-smashed" by her mother Mary''s death in September 2022 yet puzzled and "more than a little ashamed" by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, "not because I didn''t love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her." And so begins this astonishing, sometimes disturbing, and surprisingly funny memoir of the author''s journey from her childhood in Kerala, India, where her single mother founded a school, to the writing of her prizewinning novels and essays, through today. With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels, The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace--a memoir like no other.

''De vertelstem van Roy is zo uitzonderlijk, moreel indringend en rijk aan verbeelding tegelijk, dat je van begin tot eind betoverd blijft.'' The New York Times Arundhati Roy''s debuutroman De God van Kleine Dingen is een moderne klassieker, die wel wordt vergeleken met het werk van Faulkner en Dickens. Deze wereldwijd geliefde roman is een aangrijpend familierelaas, een geheime liefdesgeschiedenis en een politiek drama tegelijk. Het boek vertelt het verhaal van een welgestelde Indiase familie, voorgoed getekend door één noodlottige dag in 1969. De komst van hun beeldschone nichtje Sophie zet de wereld van de zevenjarige tweeling Estha en Rahel volledig op zijn kop. Wat volgt is een reeks van verboden verlangens en tragische gebeurtenissen – zowel toevallig als doelbewust – die de ''grote dingen die onuitgesproken blijven'' blootleggen in een land dat gevaarlijk snel richting onrust afglijdt. ''Een echt ambitieuze roman moet zijn eigen taal uitvinden, en dat doet deze.'' John Updike, The New Yorker ''''Een epische roman.'' NRC ''Een droomdebuut.'' Trouw

Named One of The New York Times Book Review’s Top Ten Books of the Year Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography | Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Nominated for the Women''s Prize for Nonfiction One of the best-reviewed books of the year, a raw and deeply moving memoir that “pulses with compassion and moral outrage” (The Wall Street Journal) from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces her complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as a woman and a writer. “Heart-smashed” by the death of the mother she ran from at age eighteen and shaken by the intensity of her response, Arundhati Roy began this remarkable memoir—a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is: shaped by circumstance but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as “my shelter and my storm.” With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels, and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace—a memoir like no other.

»Mein aufrührerisches Herz« zeigt die dunkle Kehrseite Indiens und ist ein Plädoyer für Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit. Ihr Mut wird bewundert, ihre Unbeirrtheit gefürchtet: Seit ihrem Bestseller »Der Gott der kleine Dinge« tritt Arundhati Roy für ein gerechteres Indien ein, für Freiheit, die nicht nur für die Wenigen gilt. Sie scheut kein Risiko. Sie kämpft nicht nur mit der Feder, sondern auch auf der Straße: gegen die von Modi angezettelten Pogrome, gegen die Besetzung Kaschmirs, gegen Abholzung und den Bau von Staudämmen, die ganze Landschaften zerstören. »Mein aufrührerisches Herz« zeichnet nicht nur diese Reisen einer engagierten Schriftstellerin und couragierten Bürgerin nach, sondern schließt den Bogen zwischen ihren beiden bewunderten Romanen »Der Gott der kleinen Dinge« und »Das Ministerium des äußersten Glücks«: Ihr Engagement ist ihr Leben.

Inspired by Mao''s Little Red Book, the new Expanded Edition of The Proletarian''s Pocketbook comes full of quotes to inspire and teach the science of revolution to the oppressed and working people of the world, building a path towards liberation, socialism and justice. With teachings from more than 100 oppressed, colonized, exploited, successful and working revolutionaries from around our Earth, the Expanded Edition is bound to inspire the revolutionary spirit inside you and your comrades to educate, organize, and build the revolution! This new edition comes with even more quotes, more revolutionaries cited, a reading recommendation page, and a handful of posters and charts. All Power to the People, We''ve Got a World to Win! Full list of authors: Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin Mumia Abu-Jamal Sundiata Acoli John Africa Samir Amin Kuwasi Balagoon James Baldwin Toni Cade Bambara Willie Baptist Amiri Baraka Maurice Bishop James and Grace Lee Boggs Bertolt Brecht Safiya Bukhari Amilcar Cabral Berta Caceres Fidel Castro Aimé Césaire Combahee River Collective Angela Davis Dialego Dimitrov DMX Frederick Douglass W.E.B. Du Bois Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Friedrich Engels Zhou Enlai Frantz Fanon Kiran Fatima Silvia Federici Les Feinberg Clara Fraser Paulo Freire Anuradha Ghandy Nikki Giovanni Antonio Gramsci Che Guevara Fred Hampton Kathleen Hanna Harry Haywood Ho Chi Min bell hooks Enver Hoxha Dolores Ibarruri Kim Il-Sung George Jackson Jonathan Jackson Marsha P. Johnson Claudia Jones Frida Kahlo Ghasson Kanafani Leila Khaled Martin Luther King, Jr. Alexandra Kollantai L.A. Research Group Vladimir Lenin Audre Lorde Rosa Luxemburg Nelson Mandela Mao Tse-Tung Manning Marable Sub Marcos José Mariátegui Carlos Marighella Bob Marley Karl Marx Charu Mazumdar Chico Mendes Evo Morales Toni Morrison Fred Moten Huey P. Newton Kwame Nkrumah Julius Nyerere Nyurba Lola Olufemi Michael Parenti Leonard Peltier Rashid The Red Nation Paul Robeson Walter Rodney Arundhati Roy J. Sakai Thomas Sankara Lucia Sánchez Saornil Bobby Seale Chief Seattle Assata Shakur Tupac Shakur Nina Simone Bhagat Singh Joseph Stalin Sukarno Doris Tijeriino Sèkou Tourè Kwame Ture Dhoruba Bin Wahad Harsha Walia Lilla Watson Malcolm X Xi Jinping Malala Yousafzai

Azadi signifie "liberté" en ourdou. Il s''agit, à l''origine, d''un cri de ralliement cachemiri contre le gouvernement indien qui a été repris par le peuple lui-même pour protester contre ses dirigeants. Dans ce recueil d''essais brûlants d''actualité, Arundhati Roy nous met au défi de réfléchir sur le sens de la liberté dans un monde où l''autoritarisme va croissant. À travers ces textes, et ces temps troublés, elle explore l''importance du langage, le rôle de la fiction et de l''imagination, ainsi que les répercussions de la crise sanitaire sur la société indienne. Pour Arundhati Roy, la pandémie que nous traversons fait figure de portail entre un monde et un autre. En dépit de la maladie et de la dévastation qu''elle produit dans son sillage, elle représente peut-être aussi une chance pour l''humanité d''inventer un monde différent.

आज़ादी—कश्मीर में आज़ादी के संघर्ष का नारा है, जिससे कश्मीरी उस चीज़ की मुख़ालफ़त करते हैं जिसे वे भारतीय क़ब्ज़े के रूप में देखते हैं। विडम्बना ही है कि यह भारत की सड़कों पर हिन्दू राष्ट्रवाद की परियोजना की मुख़ालफ़त करनेवाले लाखों अवाम का नारा भी बन गया। आज़ादी की इन दोनों पुकारों के बीच क्या है–क्या यह एक दरार है या एक पुल है? इस सवाल के जवाब पर ग़ौर करने का वक़्त अभी आया ही था कि सड़कें ख़ामोश हो गईं। सिर्फ़ भारत ही नहीं, पूरी दुनिया की सड़कें। कोविड–19 के साथ आई आज़ादी की एक और समझ, जो कहीं ख़ौफ़नाक थी। इसने मुल्कों के बीच सरहदों को बेमानी बना दिया, सारी की सारी आबादियों को क़ैद कर दिया और आधुनिक दुनिया को इस तरह ठहराव पर ला दिया जैसा कभी नहीं देखा गया था। रोमांचित कर देनेवाले इन लेखों में अरुंधति रॉय एक चुनौती देती हैं कि हम दुनिया में बढ़ती जा रही तानाशाही के दौर में आज़ादी के मायनों पर ग़ौर करें। इन लेखों में, हमारे बेचैन कर देनेवाले इस वक़्त में निजी और सार्वजनिक ज़ुबानों पर बात की गई है, बात की गई है क़िस्सागोई और नए सपनों की ज़रूरत की। रॉय के मुताबिक़, महामारी एक नई दुनिया की दहलीज़ है। जहाँ आज यह महामारी बीमारियाँ और तबाही लेकर आई है, वहीं यह एक नई क़िस्म की इंसानियत के लिए दावत भी है। यह एक मौक़ा है कि हम एक नई दुनिया का सपना देख सकें।

"En des temps meilleurs, on parlait de perspective critique ou de vision du monde alternative. Aujourd’hui, en Inde, on dit sédition." Mon cœur séditieux réunit le travail de vingt ans de réflexion et d’engagement. En 1998, après le magistral Dieu des Petits Riens, Arundhati Roy prend la plume pour s’élever contre le programme nucléaire indien dans plusieurs essais qui signeront le début de son combat politique. Au travers d’une quarantaine de textes, elle s’intéresse à la politique et aux dynamiques de pouvoir en jeu au sein des gouvernements des puissances mondiales. Dans un environnement de plus en plus hostile, elle décrit avec toujours autant de férocité et de clairvoyance le combat des opprimés, les injustices de castes ou les tragédies écologiques. Elle observe, comme autrice et comme citoyenne du monde, l’évolution de la société des années quatre-vingt-dix à nos jours. Son écriture radicale met à la portée de tous une réflexion passionnante d’une extrême actualité.

Two decades of commentary by the New York Times–bestselling author: "An electrifying political essayist . . . uplifting . . . galvanizing." — Booklist From the Booker Prize-winning author of such works as The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, My Seditious Heart collects nonfiction spanning over twenty years and chronicles a battle for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile world. Taken together, these essays are told in a voice of unique spirit, marked by compassion, clarity, and courage. Radical and superbly readable, they speak always in defense of the collective, of the individual, and of the land, in the face of the destructive logic of financial, social, religious, military, and governmental elites. "Her lucid and probing essays offer sharp insights on a range of matters, from crony capitalism and environmental depredation to the perils of nationalism and, in her most recent work, the insidiousness of the Hindu caste system. In an age of intellectual logrolling and mass-manufactured infotainment, she continues to offer bracing ways of seeing, thinking and feeling." —Pankaj Mishra, Time Magazine Praise for Arundhati Roy: "Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays." —Howard Zinn "One of the most confident and original thinkers of our time." —Naomi Klein "The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating." — The New York Times Book Review

IL LIBRO CHE RACCOGLIE VENT''ANNI DI LOTTE, DI IMPEGNO, DI SCRITTURA DELL''AUTRICE DI IL DIO DELLE PICCOLE COSE «Arundhati Roy è fra gli intellettuali più determinati e originali del nostro tempo.» Naomi Klein «Arundhati Roy è una scrittrice che non conosce la paura. E in questo libro – in cui si fa appello alla giustizia, alla testimonianza, a un’umanità autentica – si esprime al meglio.» Junot Diaz «La polemica di Arundhati Roy è importante e necessaria... dobbiamo esserle grati per il suo coraggio e il suo talento» Salma Rushdie «Arundhati Roy si domanda se le nostre democrazie, ormai avvizzite, siano ‘l’ultimo stadio della razza umana’ e spiega perché questo rischio sia da prendere molto sul serio» Noam Chomsky Il mio cuore sedizioso raccoglie vent’anni dell’opera di Arundhati Roy, un lungo periodo in cui la scrittrice ha scelto l’inchiesta, il saggio politico, la testimonianza personale, il resoconto narrativo, come mezzi per condurre le sue battaglie per la giustizia, i diritti e la libertà in un contesto che diventava sempre più ostile. Nell’insieme, il volume traccia una parabola che comincia dalla vittoria del Booker Prize con Il dio delle piccole cose per finire con l’ultimo romanzo, Il ministero della suprema felicità: un percorso di vita e di scrittura nel segno della compassione, della solidarietà e del coraggio. Incisiva e diretta, la voce dell’autrice si è sempre levata in difesa della collettività, dei popoli e delle loro terre, a dispetto della logica distruttiva delle potenti corporazioni finanziarie, sociali, religiose, militari e politiche. In costante dialogo con i temi e le ambientazioni dei suoi romanzi, dei quali hanno il fascino e la ricchezza espressiva, questi scritti documentano il viaggio di Arundhati Roy in India e nel mondo, a partire da La fine delle illusioni, che apre la raccolta, per arrivare a Il mio cuore sedizioso, che la conclude.

वर्तमान भारत में असमानता को समझने और उससे निपटने के लिए, अरुंधति रॉय ज़ोर दे कर कहती हैं कि हमें राजनीतिक विकास और एम.के. गांधी का प्रभाव, दोनों का ही परीक्षण करना होगा। सोचना होगा कि क्यों बी.आर. आंबेडकर द्वारा गांधी की लगभग दैवीय छवि को दी गई प्रबुद्ध चुनौती को भारत के कुलीन वर्ग द्वारा दबा दिया गया। राय के विश्लेषण में, हम देखते हैं कि न्याय के लिए आंबेडकर की लड़ाई, जाति को सुदृढ़ करनेवाली नीतियों के पक्ष में, व्यवस्थित रूप से दरकिनार कर दी गई, जिसका परिणाम है वर्तमान भारतीय राष्ट्र जो आज ब्रिटिश शासन से स्वतंत्र है, विश्वस्तर पर शक्तिशाली है, लेकिन आज भी जो जाति व्यवस्था में आकंठ डूबा है।

"A richly moving new novel--the first since the author''s Booker Prize-winning, internationally celebrated debut, ''The God of Small Things, '' went on to become a beloved best seller and enduring classic. ''The Ministry of Utmost Happiness'' transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a place of safety -- in search of meaning, and of love. In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears, just after midnight. In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. In a second-floor apartment, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. At the Jannat Guest House, two people who have known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around each other, as though they have just met. A braided narrative of astonishing force and originality, ''The Ministry of Utmost Happiness'' is at once a love story and a provocation -- a novel as inventive as it is emotionally engaging. It is told with a whisper, in a shout, through joyous tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Its heroes, both present and departed, have been broken by the world we live in -- and then mended by love. For this reason, they will never surrender. How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything. Humane and sensuous, beautifully told, this extraordinary novel demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy''s storytelling gifts."--

Arundhati Roy et John Cusack se lancent dans un pari un peu fou : aller rendre visite à Edward Snowden à Moscou, où il est réfugié politique. De ce défi naît une passionnante série d’essais et de conversations, de l’émergence de cette idée jusqu’à la rencontre avec ce fameux lanceur d’alerte, ancien employé de la CIA et de la NSA. Accompagnés pour cette entrevue historique de Daniel Ellsberg, un autre lanceur d’alerte qui avait fourni en 1971 les "papiers du Pentagone" au New York Times, ils abordent au fil du texte la question de la guerre, de l’espionnage, du terrorisme, du patriotisme... et décortiquent de façon salutairement implacable le fonctionnement actuel du monde.

An activist and an actor reflect on Edward Snowden and the surveillance state in this collection that "reads like a whistleblower''s travel diary" ( Disorient). In late 2014, Arundhati Roy, John Cusack, and Daniel Ellsberg traveled to Moscow to meet with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The result was a series of essays and dialogues in which Roy and Cusack reflect on their conversations with Snowden. In these provocative and penetrating discussions, Roy and Cusack discuss the nature of the state, empire, and surveillance in an era of perpetual war, the meaning of flags and patriotism, the role of foundations and NGOs in limiting dissent, and the ways in which capital —but not people—can freely cross borders. " Things That Can and Cannot Be Said is not a book with solutions, nor even a comprehensive framing of the problem. Its charm and potential lies in its disarming conversational approach, offering insights-in-passing; ideas and thoughts to spark further conversations and just maybe inspire other acts of moral courage. While the book channels a palpable sense of rage—rage at imperialism, at the surveillance state, at ''Washington''s ability to destroy countries and its inability to win a war''—it concludes on the topic of love." — PopMatters "It asks questions—a lot of them. It connects dots from Kashmir to Palestine to Vietnam to Virginia—leaving no one spared from scrutiny––not even themselves, as Arundhati asserts." — Disorient "The freewheeling conversations between all the participants will bring up many Eureka moments for a lot of readers. Insights that can only be gained if you are researching these topics in exhausting detail." — Firstpost

Five books of essays in one volume from the Booker Prize–winner and "one of the most ambitious and divisive political essayists of her generation" ( The Washington Post). With a new introduction by Arundhati Roy, this new collection begins with her pathbreaking book The Cost of Living—published soon after she won the Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things—in which she forcefully condemned India''s nuclear tests and its construction of enormous dam projects that continue to displace countless people from their homes and communities. The End of Imagination also includes her nonfiction works Power Politics, War Talk, Public Power in the Age of Empire, and An Ordinary Person''s Guide to Empire, which include her widely circulated and inspiring writings on the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the need to confront corporate power, and the hollowing out of democratic institutions globally. Praise for Arundhati Roy "The fierceness with which Arundhati Roy loves humanity moves my heart." —Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and recipient of the LennonOno Grant for Peace Award "Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays." —Howard Zinn, author of Political Awakenings and Indispensable Zinn "Arundhati Roy is incandescent in her brilliance and her fearlessness. And in these extraordinary essays—which are clarions for justice, for witness, for a true humanity—Roy is at her absolute best." —Junot Díaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "One of the most confident and original thinkers of our time." —Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and The Battle For Paradise "Arundhati Roy calls for ''factual precision'' alongside of the ''real precision of poetry.'' Remarkably, she combines those achievements to a degree that few can hope to approach." —Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hopes and Prospects "India''s most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence." — The New York Times

On 13 December 2001, the Indian Parliament was attacked by a few heavily armed men. Eleven years later, we still do not know who was behind the attack, nor the identity of the attackers. Both the Delhi high court and the Supreme Court of India have noted that the police violated legal safeguards, fabricated evidence and extracted false confessions. Yet, on 9 February 2013, one man, Mohammad Afzal Guru, was hanged to ‘satisfy’ the ‘collective conscience’ of society. This updated reader brings together essays by lawyers, academics, journalists and writers who have looked closely at the available facts and who have raised serious questions about the investigations and the trial. This new version examines the implications of Mohammad Afzal Guru’s hanging and what it says about the Indian government’s relationship with Kashmir.

India es un país de mil doscientos millones de personas y es la "democracia" más grande del mundo, con más de 800 millones de votantes. Pero las 100 personas más ricas del país poseen activos que equivalen a una cuarta parte del Producto Interior Bruto. El resto de la población son fantasmas en un sistema más allá de su control. Millones de personas viven con menos de dos dólares al día. Cientos de miles de agricultores se suicidan cada año incapaces de hacer frente a sus deudas. Estos son sólo algunos ejemplos de los "brotes verdes" de una economía que ha corrompido a la India contemporánea.

The "courageous and clarion" Booker Prize–winner "continues her analysis and documentation of the disastrous consequences of unchecked global capitalism" ( Booklist). From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country''s one hundred richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India''s gross domestic product. Capitalism: A Ghost Story examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism have subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation. "A highly readable and characteristically trenchant mapping of early-twenty-first-century India''s impassioned love affair with money, technology, weaponry and the ''privatization of everything,'' and—because these must not be impeded no matter what—generous doses of state violence." — The Nation "A vehement broadside against capitalism in general and American cultural imperialism in particular . . . an impassioned manifesto." — Kirkus Reviews "Roy''s central concern is the effect on her own country, and she shows how Indian politics have taken on the same model, leading to the ghosts of her book''s title: 250,000 farmers have committed suicide, 800 million impoverished and dispossessed Indians, environmental destruction, colonial-like rule in Kashmir, and brutal treatment of activists and journalists. In this dark tale, Roy gives rays of hope that illuminate cracks in the nightmare she evokes." — Publishers Weekly

‘The terse, typewritten note slipped under my door in a sealed envelope confirmed my appointment with “India’s single biggest internal security challenge”. I’d been waiting for months to hear from them...’ In early 2010, Arundhati Roy travelled into the forests of Central India, homeland to millions of indigenous people, dreamland to some of the world’s biggest mining corporations. The result is this powerful and unprecedented report from the heart of an unfolding revolution.

On Naxalite movement and Indian state''s counter insurgency methods and other policies

From the bestselling author of The God of Small Things comes a scathing and passionate indictment of big government''s disregard for the individual. In her Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy turned a compassionate but unrelenting eye on one family in India. Now she lavishes the same acrobatic language and fierce humanity on the future of her beloved country. In this spirited polemic, Roy dares to take on two of the great illusions of India''s progress: the massive dam projects that were supposed to haul this sprawling subcontinent into the modern age--but which instead have displaced untold millions--and the detonation of India''s first nuclear bomb, with all its attendant Faustian bargains. Merging her inimitable voice with a great moral outrage and imaginative sweep, Roy peels away the mask of democracy and prosperity to show the true costs hidden beneath. For those who have been mesmerized by her vision of India, here is a sketch, traced in fire, of its topsy-turvy society, where the lives of the many are sacrificed for the comforts of the few. From the Trade Paperback edition.