astonishing, a great paradox between government's Project and cultural heritage

" The nuclear bomb is the most antidemocratic, antinational, antihuman, outright evil thing that man has ever made.

If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man’s challenge to God.
It’s worded quite simply: we have the power to destroy everything that You have created.

If you’re not (religious), then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old.

It could end in an afternoon. "

esai arundhati yang memukau. tentang bendungan yang meruyak di india, sampai kemudian india menjadi pembuat bendungan terbesar ke 3 di dunia. ternyata, masalah yang muncul dibalik pembangunan bendungan2 tersebut. semua diceritakan dengan mengalir dan detail.

This book is so informative about a topic I had never broached- the Sardovar dams. It is very fascinating, especially for environmentalists. I think it's a win-win kind of read. And it's short.

this was the first book i read by Roy and I fell in love with her. She is soo witty and sarcastic, I love it. But really this was really written well and it really puts the smack down on the dam issue in India and nuclear power issue between Pakistan and India.

After 5 months of trying to get through this book, I give up. I got about 1/3 of the way through it, but it's just too dry and cynical for my taste.

in terms of getting its point across, great and nuanced. the language though is just a little too unbridled/emotional/sarcastic at times and kind of gets in the way of the (very damning) argument.

would be cool if this was expanded. grey matter W once again

"Let's just say that we are ancient people learning to live in a recent nation."

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget."

So full and colorful was the story Roy was telling, a story of pain and suffering and infinite injustice towards the ordinary human. It never ceases to amaze me how strange and cruel real life can be, no work of fiction can ever surpass it...
I wonder what happened to the dam. Are the people still fighting? Have more of them been displaced and forgotten?
20 years later, this book is still relevant.
All we can do is learn from the past, from other people's/countries' past and use our voices to fight back. Because if a government treats its people like a product, take away the product and they'll have nothing, they'll be nothing.
Remember, we, together, have more power than them.

عبارة عن تقارير واحصائيات عن استغلال الحكومة لأكتاف الفقراء والصعود عليها في سبيل التطور والأمن القومي ، خصوصاً انشاء السدود ومسؤليته عن تشريد ملايين المواطنين عن أراضيهم
، تعتبر الهند 3 أكبر بانية سدود بالعالم ، من الكتاب : الهند لاتعيش في قراها ،الهند تموت في قراها، الهند تطارد وتطرد من قراها، الهند تعيش في مدنها، قرى الهند تعيش فقط لتخدم مدنها .. ،
أول كتاب أقرأ لـ أروندهاتي أعجبني أسلوبها القوي والتعلقيات الذكية
ووصفها الدقيق للأوضاع .

if you read one thing let it please please be this!! literally changed my life, as an Indian and above all a human being. Roy writes so beautifully and convincingly, i love her fiction but man, nothing beats her non-fiction.