Book description
The Shape of the Beast is our world laid bare by a mind that
has consistently and unhesitatingly engaged with its changing
realities and often anticipated the way things have moved in the last decade.
In the fourteen interviews collected here, conducted between January
2001 and March 2008, Arundhati Roy examines the nature of state and
corporate power as it has emerged during this period, and the shape
that resistance movements are taking. As she speaks about people
displaced by dams and industry, the genocide in Gujurat, Maoist
rebels, the war in Kashmir and the global War on Terror, she raises
fundamental questions about democracy, justice and non-violent protest.
Unabashedly political, this is also a deeply personal collection
that talks about the necessity of taking a stand and about the dilemma
of guarding the private space necessary for writing in a world that
demands urgent, unequivocal intervention.
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.
