Portland Public Library

My seditious heart, collected nonfiction, Arundhati Roy

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 870-956) and index

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My seditious heart

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Arundhati Roy

collected nonfiction

"In constant conversation with the themes and settings of her novels, the essays form a near-unbroken memoir of Arundhati Roy's journey as both a writer and a citizen, of both India and the world, from "The End of Imagination", which begins this book, to 'Azadi', with which it ends. Bookended by her two award-winning novels, The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile world. Taken together, the essays speak 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"--, Provided by publisher

The End of Imagination -- The Greater Common Good -- Power Politics: The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin -- The Ladies Have Feelings, So ... Shall We Leave It to the Experts? -- The Algebra of Infinite Justice -- War Is Peace -- On Citizens' Rights to Express Dissent -- Democracy: Who Is She When She's at Home? -- War Talk: Summer Games with Nuclear Bombs -- Ahimsa (Nonviolent Resistance) -- Come September -- The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky -- Confronting Empire -- Peace Is War: The Collateral Damage of Breaking News -- An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire -- Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy (Buy One, Get One Free) -- When the Saints Go Marching Out: The Strange Fate of Martin, Mohandas, and Mandela -- In Memory of Shankar Guha Niyogi -- Do Turkeys Enjoy Thanksgiving? -- How Deep Shall We Dig? -- The Road to Harsud -- Public Power in the Age of Empire -- Peace and the New Corporate Liberation Theology -- Breaking the News -- "And His Life Should Become Extinct": The Very Strange Story of the Attack on the Indian Parliament -- Custodial Confessions, the Media, and the Law -- Listening to Grasshoppers: Genocide, Denial, and Celebration -- Azadi -- Nine Is Not Eleven (and November Isn't September) -- Democracy's Failing Light -- Mr. Chidambaram's War -- The President Took the Salute -- Walking with the Comrades -- Trickledown Revolution -- Kashmir's Fruits of Discord -- I'd Rather Not Be Anna -- Speech to the People's University -- Capitalism: A Ghost Story -- A Perfect Day for Democracy -- The Consequences of Hanging Afzal Guru -- The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate -- Professor, P.O.W. -- My Seditious Heart -- Appendix -- The Great Indian Rape-Trick I -- The Great Indian Rape-Trick II