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037			_cPurchased _nMathrubhumi Books,Kaloor
041			_aEnglish
082			_a323.44 _bARU/AZ
100			_aArundhati Roy
245			_aAZADI : Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
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260			_aUSA _bHamish Hamilton _c2020/01/01
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500			_a The chant of "Azadi!"—Urdu for "Freedom!"—is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu Nationalism. Even as Arundhati Roy began to ask what lay between these two calls for Freedom—a chasm or a bridge?—the streets fell silent. Not only in India, but all over the world. The coronavirus brought with it another, more terrible understanding of Azadi, making a nonsense of international borders, incarcerating whole populations, and bringing the modern world to a halt like nothing else ever could. In this series of electrifying essays, Arundhati Roy challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism. The essays include meditations on language, public as well as private, and on the role of fiction and alternative imaginations in these disturbing times. The pandemic, she says, is a portal between one world and another. For all the illness and devastation it has left in its wake, it is an invitation to the human race, an opportunity, to imagine another world.
650			_a Authoritarianism.
650			_aNationalism.
650			_aPolitics and literature.
650			_aEthnic relations.
650			_aPolitics and government.
650			_aRace relations.
650			_aSocial conditions.
650			_aJammu and Kashmir (India) Social conditions 21st century.
650			_aIndia Social conditions 21st century.
650			_aIndia Race relations.
650			_a India Ethnic relations.
650			_aEssays.
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