Capitalism by Arundhati Roy
In Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy-a nation of 1.2 billion, where the country's 100 richest people own assets worth one quarter of India's gross domestic product. Ferocious and clear-sighted, this is a searing portrait of a nation haunted by ghosts: the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt; the hundreds of millions who live on less than two dollars a day. It is the story of how the largest democracy in the world, with over 800 million voting in the last election, answers to the demands of globalized capitalism, subjecting millions of people to inequality and exploitation. Roy shows how the mega-corporations, modern robber barons plundering India's natural resources, use brute force, as well as a wide range of NGOs and foundations, to sway government and policy making in India.
An unflinching emotional as well as political intelligenceHer lucid and probing essays offer sharp insights on a range of matters, from crony capitalism and environmental depredation to the perils of nationalism. -- Pankaj Mishra * Time Magazine *
In her searing account, 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
The fierceness with which Arundhati Roy loves humanity moves my heart. -- Alice Walker
Resists and denounces all tyrannies, pleads for their victims, and unflinchingly questions the tragedy. -- John Berger
The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating. * The New York Times Book Review *
Powerful, passionate and often personal (she records her own hounding by "the mob" over her comments about Kashmir), this work is timely and hugely important in its targets: it's hard to think of bigger dangers, or more harmful effects, than from faceless, unaccountable conglomerates. * Independent *
In her searing account, 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
The fierceness with which Arundhati Roy loves humanity moves my heart. -- Alice Walker
Resists and denounces all tyrannies, pleads for their victims, and unflinchingly questions the tragedy. -- John Berger
The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating. * The New York Times Book Review *
Powerful, passionate and often personal (she records her own hounding by "the mob" over her comments about Kashmir), this work is timely and hugely important in its targets: it's hard to think of bigger dangers, or more harmful effects, than from faceless, unaccountable conglomerates. * Independent *
ARUNDHATI ROY was born in 1959 in Shillong, India. She studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, and has written several nonfiction books, including Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers and Walking with the Comrades. She is a contributor to the Verso anthology Kashmir: The Case for Freedom. Roy is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784780319 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784780316 |
| Title | Capitalism |
| Author | Arundhati Roy |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2014-11-04 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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