Horrible book, badly written. Don't waste your money.

When you combine brilliant novelistic writing with intellectual and moral courage akin to Noam Chomsky, you end up with Arundhati Roy.

She is among the most brilliant minds of the day. My words cannot describe here's Justice. This is a haunting read sixteen years after it was initially published, especially in light of Narendra Modi's role now as PM versus then, when he was a Chief Minister in Gujarat and oversaw a vicious pogrom against Muslims. Her thoughts on nationalism and fascism are still, unfortunately, timely. Well worth a read.

This book is a collection of essays and short stories. These essays and short stories are about violence between countries, racial discrimination, and differences between the communities. In this Arundhati Roy book, she quoted that all war is essentially a war of the rich against the poor. Checkout this article i found online about 10 Best Arundhati Roy Books. https://dailybugle.in/best-arundhati-...

Read this curled up in one horrified sitting on a (new) friend's sofa, even gasping at one point ("Is that the part about Churchill?" - "Very definitely yes")

Moving and written with empathy and simplicity, but still somehow lacking... something. COuldn't say what, just trying to justify the four stars.

Brilliantly written. Revealing and well-researched essays on neocoloniolism and American aggression around the world. Easy to read, but difficult to put down.

More brain thoughts about how shitty money and americans are. Compelling!

Definitely a start to read more Noam Chomsky!!

I don't often read political books.

But I love Roy. This is not a novel, but a series of essays and speeches she has given about politics and the post 9/11 political climate.

She is not a fan of fascism. She believes that globalization is the silent fist that is destroying the world. She loathes war and the people who create war. She feels that any government that continues to support war, real or covert should crumble.

These are some of my feelings as well. But I am not articulate. I am not outside of the US seeing our atrocities being played over and over.

I applaud Roy for speaking her mind and giving another perspective.. one I value very deeply.

"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead."

Loved this book. Roy is an excellent writer with keen insights and arguments about war, suffering, and empire. On to Chomsky now!

These pieces were written between 2002-2003 and reflect that troubled time. The titular piece opens the collection and is certainly timely in light of the bellicose rhetoric between North Korea and the Oval Office. The other pieces were not as gripping. There is an interesting view of domestic India and its myriad concerns.

Collection of essays, notably "Come September", her speech on the one year anniversary of 911, along with an homage to Chomsky, and a description of the rise of Hindu-Nationalism in India after the explosion of their first atom bomb.

"Come September" is already being used as a university text five years after its deliverance - it will be read and studied for generations, centuries; I'm sure as important a work of reason, literary art, damning indictment and eloquence as Woolstonecraft's Vindication on the Rights of Woman. If you can, hear the live version on CD, which includes an introduction by Howard Zinn and a poem she wrote to a friend of hers. I found the poem so beautiful when I heard it, I transcribed it on a letter I wrote to my sister.