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Field notes on democracy, listening to grasshoppers, Arundhati Roy

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Field notes on democracy

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Arundhati Roy

listening to grasshoppers

"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. Roy writes about how the combination of Hindu Nationalism and India's neo-liberal economic reforms, which began their journey together in the early 1990s, are now turning India into a police state. 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. She also offers a brilliant account of the August 2008 uprising of the people of Kashmir against India's military occupation and an analysis of the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai."--Publisher's Web site

Introduction : Democracy's Failing Light -- 1. Democracy : Who's She When She's at Home? -- 2. How Deep Shall We Dig? -- 3. "And His Life Should Become Extinct" : The Very Strange Story of the Attack on the Indian Parliament -- 4. Breaking the News -- 5. Custodial Confessions, the Media, and the Law -- 6. Baby Bush, Go Home -- 7. Animal Farm II : In Which George Bush Says What He Really Means -- 8. Scandal in the Palace -- 9. Listening to Grasshoppers : Genocide, Denial, and Celebration -- 10. Azadi -- 11. Nine Is Not Eleven (And November Isn't September) -- 12. Briefing