My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction

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 HappinessMy 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

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My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction

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 HappinessMy 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

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My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction

My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction

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My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction

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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 HappinessMy 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


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781608466740
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 11/04/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 1118
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Arundhati Roy studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. She has written several nonfiction books, including Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers, Capitalism: A Ghost Story, Walking with the Comrades, Things That Can and Cannot Be Said (with John Cusack), and The End of Imagination. She is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize.

Table of Contents

Foreword xiii

The End of Imagination 1

The Greater Common Good 25

Power Politics: The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin 76

The Ladies Have Feelings, So … Shall We Leave It to the Experts? 106

The Algebra of Infinite Justice 126

War Is Peace 138

On Citizens' Rights to Express Dissent 150

Democracy: Who Is She When She's at Home? 160

War Talk: Summer Games with Nuclear Bombs 177

Ahimsa (Nonviolent Resistance) 182

Come September 187

The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky 206

Confronting Empire 221

Peace Is War: The Collateral Damage of Breaking News 227

An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire 242

Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy (Buy One, Get One Free) 254

When the Saints Go Marching Out: The Strange Fate of Martin, Mohandas, and Mandela 273

In Memory of Shankar Guha Niyogi 280

Do Turkeys Enjoy Thanksgiving? 284

How Deep Shall We Dig? 293

The Road to Harsud 309

Public Power in the Age of Empire 329

Peace and the New Corporate Liberation Theology 355

Breaking the News 363

"And His Life Should Become Extinct": The Very Strange Story of the Attack on the Indian Parliament 375

Custodial Confessions, the Media, and the Law 404

Listening to Grasshoppers: Genocide, Denial, and Celebration 408

Azadi 433

Nine Is Not Eleven (and November Isn't September) 447

Democracy's Failing Light 463

Mr. Chidambaram's War 489

The President Took the Salute 507

Walking with the Comrades 511

Trickledown Revolution 569

Kashmir's Fruits of Discord 606

I'd Rather Not Be Anna 612

Speech to the People's University 618

Capitalism: A Ghost Story 621

A Perfect Day for Democracy 654

The Consequences of Hanging Afzal Guru 660

The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate 668

Professor, P.O.W. 787

My Seditious Heart 795

Appendix

The Great Indian Rape-Trick I 836

The Great Indian Rape-Trick II 849

Acknowledgments 861

Glossary 863

Notes 870

Index 957

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