This is an interview-style book, with David Barsamian (who interviews everybody), and A-Roy tells it like it is about India, America, and the rest of the fucked-up world we live in.

An excellent overview of Roy's sociopolitical worldview. The interviews wrap you in the warmth of a revolutionary woman in the midst of an India taking a turn for the fascist.

This is what the kids call a vibe-check kinda book. You learn less about the issues discussed (this is a book of interviews) than an approach to them, an orientation: to stand against power; to recognize the idiosyncrasies of 'the West'; to celebrate the dignity of independence; to see the interconnectedness of things. A set of discussions nearly twenty years old, Roy is here, politically, where it took me thirty years to get to. This is a kindred spirit, musing over the brutalities of the world in as lighthearted a fashion as one probably can. The above average rating isn't because this isn't good, it's just more because of the limitations of the interview format: it ranges wide, but cuts only just-so.