Book description
War has spread from the borders of India to the forests in the very
heart of the country. Combining brilliant analysis and reportage by
one of India's iconic writers, Broken Republic examines the
nature of progress and development in the emerging global superpower,
and asks fundamental questions about modern civilization itself - in
three incisive essays:
Mr Chidambaram's War
'The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the
Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state
called Orissa . . . '
Walking with the Comrades
'The terse, typewritten note slipped under my door in a sealed
envelope confirmed my appointment with "India's single biggest
internal security challenge". I'd been waiting for months to hear
from them . . . '
Trickledown Revolution
'In the early morning hours of 2 July 2010, in the remote forests of
Adilabad, the Andhra Pradesh State Police fired a bullet into the
chest of a man called Cherukuri Rajkumar, known to his comrades as
Azad . . .'
Arundhati Roy is the author of
The God of Small Things
, which won the Booker Prize in 1997. She has also written three volumes
of non-fiction writing:
The Algebra of Infinite Justice,
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
, and
Listening to Grasshoppers
. She lives in New Delhi.
