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010      2020045406 
020    9781642592603|q(hardcover) 
020    |z9781642593808|q(ebook) 
020    1642592609 
035    (OCoLC)1144105003 
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050 00 DS421.5|b.R78 2020 
082 00 323.440954|223 
100 1  Roy, Arundhati,|eauthor. 
245 10 Azadi :|bFreedom. Fascism. Fiction. /|cArundhati Roy. 
263    2102 
264  1 Chicago, Illinois :|bHaymarket Books,|c2020. 
300    229 pages ;|c20 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes index. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-214) and 
       index. 
505 0  In What Language Does Rain Fall Over Tormented Cities? The
       Weather Underground in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness --
       Election Season in a Dangerous Democracy -- Our Captured, 
       Wounded Hearts -- A Language of Literature -- The Silence 
       Is the Loudest Sound -- Intimations of an Ending: The Rise
       and Rise of the Hindu Nation -- The Graveyard Talks Back: 
       -- Fiction in the Time of Fake News -- There Is Fire in 
       the Ducts, the System Is Failing -- The Pandemic Is a 
       Portal 
520    "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 has also 
       become the chant of millions on the streets of India 
       against the project of Hindu nationalism. Just 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 nonsense of international 
       borders, incarcerating whole populations, and bringing the
       modern world to a halt like nothing else ever could. In a 
       series of electrifying essays, Arundhati Roy challenges us
       to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing
       authoritarianism. She writes of the existential threat 
       posed to Indian democracy by an emboldened Hindu 
       nationalism, of the internet shutdown and information 
       siege in Kashmir-the most densely militarized zone in the 
       world-and of India's new citizenship laws that 
       discriminate against Muslims and marginalized communities,
       which could create a crisis of statelessness on a scale 
       previously unknown. 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"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
648  7 2000-2099|2fast 
650  0 Hindutva|zIndia. 
650  7 Politics and government.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919741 
651  0 India|xIntellectual life. 
651  0 India|xCivilization|y21st century. 
651  0 India|xPolitics and government|y1977- 
651  0 India|xSocial conditions|y1947- 
651  7 India|zJammu and Kashmir.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01207110 
655  7 Essays.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919922 
655  7 Essays.|2lcgft 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aRoy, Arundhati,|tAzadi|dChicago : 
       Haymarket Books, 2021.|z9781642593808|w(DLC)  2020045407 
994    C0|bGPI 
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