TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roy, Arundhati
TI  - Azadi: freedom, fascism, fiction 
SN  - 9780670094417
U1  - 954.6005 ROY-A 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - India
PB  - Penguin Random House
KW  - freedom: fascism: fiction
KW  - History
KW  - India--Jammu and Kashmir
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Race relations
KW  - India
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - The chant of ‘Azadi!’ – Urdu for ‘Freedom’-is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what the 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. Covid-19 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, Roy 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
ER  -