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Field notes on democracy : listening to grasshoppers / Arundhati Roy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roy, Arundhati.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--India.
- Democracy.
- India--Politics and government--1977-.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Haymarket Books, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With anger and compassion, Arundhati Roy's new book maps India's turbulent present and possible futures.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: Democracy's Failing Light; One Democracy: Who's She When She's at Home?; Two How Deep Shall We Dig?; Three "And His Life Should Become Extinct" The Very Strange Story of the Attack on the Indian Parliament; Four Breaking the News; Five Custodial Confessions, the Media, and the Law; Six Baby Bush, Go Home; Seven Animal Farm II In Which George Bush Says What He Really Means; Eight Scandal in the Palace; Nine Listening to Grasshoppers Genocide, Denial, and Celebration; Ten Azadi; Eleven Nine Is Not Eleven (And November Isn't September); Twelve The Briefing; Glossary
- SourcesNotes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781608460052
- 1608460053
- OCLC:
- 659861976
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