Field Notes on Democracy - 2nd Edition by Arundhati Roy (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This paperback edition features a new introduction discussing the election of India's new prime minister Narendra Modi.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Gorgeously wrought . . . pitch-perfect prose. . . . In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again.--<i>Time Magazine</i></p><p>Roy asks whether our shriveled forms of democracy will be 'the endgame of the human race'--and shows vividly why this is a prospect not to be lightly dismissed.--Noam Chomsky</p><p>Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time.--Naomi Klein</p><p>Now in paperback, with a new introduction by the author discussing the election of India's new prime minister Narendra Modi.</p><p>This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism, and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy.</p><p>She describes the systematic marginalization of religious and ethnic minorities, the rise of terrorism, and the massive scale of displacement and dispossession of the poor by predatory corporations.</p><p><i>Field Notes on Democracy</i> tracks the fault-lines that threaten to destroy India's precarious democracy and send shockwaves through the region and beyond.</p><p><b>Arundhati Roy</b> is a world-renowned Indian author and global justice activist. From her celebrated Booker Prize-winning novel <i>The God of Small Things</i> to her prolific output of writing on topics ranging from climate change to war, the perils of free-market development in India, and the defense of the poor, Roy's voice has become indispensable to millions seeking a better world.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Arundhati Roy</b> studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novel <i>The God of Small Things</i>, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize. The novel has been translated into forty languages worldwide. She has written several non-fiction books, including <i>Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers</i> and <i>Capitalism: A Ghost Story</i>, published by Haymarket Books.
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