Listening to Grasshoppers

Arundhati Roy

RRP: £14.99

Publisher: HAMISH HAMILTON

Publication Date : 02/07/2009

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A series of essays from the Man Booker Prize winner combining fierce conviction and deft political analysis to explore democracy in contemporary India. She examines how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of the country which projects itself as the world's largest democracy.

Publisher's description:

Examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. This book looks at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy.

ISBN: 9780241144626