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As the United States pushes for war on Iraq, Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, addresses issues of democracy and dissent, racism and empire, and war and peace in this collection of new essays.
The eloquence, passion, and political insight of Roy’s political essays have added legions of readers to those already familiar with her Booker Prize-winning novel. -Invited to lecture as part of the prestigious Lannan -Foundation series on the first anniversary of the unconscionable attacks of September 11, 2001, Roy challenged those who equate dissent with being "anti-American." Her previous essays on globalization and dissent have led many to see Roy as "India's most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence" ( New York Times ).
War Talk collects new essays by this prolific writer. Her work highlights the global rise of religious and racial violence. From the horrific pogroms against Muslims in Gujarat, India, to U.S. demands for a war on Iraq, Roy confronts the call to militarism. Desperately working against the backdrop of the nuclear recklessness between her homeland and Pakistan, she calls into question the equation of nation and ethnicity. And throughout her essays, Roy interrogates her own roles as "writer" and "activist."
"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. In fact she was jailed in March 2002, when -India's Supreme Court found Roy in contempt of the court after months of attempting to silence her criticism of the government.
Fully annotated versions of all Roy's most recent -essays, including her acclaimed Lannan Foundation -lecture from September 2002, are included in War Talk . Arundhati Roy is the winner of the Lannan Foundation’s Prize for Cultural Freedom, 2002, and will be returning to the U.S. in association with the Lannan Foundation in 2003. Roy’s most recent collection of essays, Power Politics , now in its second edition, sold over 25,000 copies in its first 12 months.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Arundhati takes on nthe big guns...,
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This review is from: War Talk (Paperback)
In this collection of essays, Arundhati takes on the big guns and war profiteers of past and present in short... Her thoughts on government in India can be echoed around the world most easily...My favorite lines being: I like that she brings it on to all those who are opressing the people's around the world, commiting genocide (past and present) with a sense of compassion, honesty and truth... Plus she not only says what's wrong in the world today, but makes thoughts on how it can be made better in a real way - not some utopia out there in neverland... I look forward to reading more of what she writes, past and future, as this is the first book I picked up of hers... Which I thoroughly not only for it's content, but for it's sense of writing style - very eloquent and poetic - Savannah Skye...
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Insightful analysis combined with great eloquence.,
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This review is from: War Talk (Paperback)
This book is a collection of 6 essays by Arundhati Roy. The topic differs in each "talk" although a common thread is maintained throughout the book: a courageous and honest look at intolerance and violence fomented by religious and racist believes, a straight forward and very insightful denunciation of human greed which has reached new heights through globalization and "American Imperialism" .I welcome such a book and salute Arundhati Roy for her courage, her eloquence, and above all for her passionate heart. Unfortunately she doesn't offer any alternative to what is happening to our planet and the life that it has so generously sustained for millenniums, although in her very own country have blossomed beings of the likes of Buddha, Sri Ramana Maharshi and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, just to name a few. These individuals have addressed the root cause of each and every human problem: namely the 'ego' and they offer, in a detailed and scientific manner, the only solution: transcendence of the 'ego'.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brave voice against U.S. aggression,
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This review is from: War Talk (Paperback)
This beautiful voice speaks out against the U.S. war against the people of the world, and how the so called "war on terrorism" is really a war against the rights of the people by the Bush administration and their rich corporate masters. In the rest of the world, she is a well respected voice against the growing aggression of the brutal Bush regime, while here in the U.S., the press won't even print her statements. Buy this now and read it, before the Ashcroft machine in Washington decides to ban it in the U.S. or make possession a felony. You know that is coming soon, as the Bush regime wants to fully emulate their predecessors in spirit, the Third Reich.
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