| Author: | Arundhati Roy | Rating: | ***** (4) |
| Date read: | January, 2010 | ||
Shocking, frightening, and horrifying description of both secular and religious fascist elements at work in modern “democratic” India. I have had a sense from comments read in other places that the media’s portrayal of India and its thriving, growing middle class was not telling the whole story. Little did I know; the truth is far worse than I imagined. The book is a collection of essays, providing different angles on Indian society and government. Between selling out the country (especially the poor) and its future to the multinational corporations and the fanatic, government-sponsored religious nationalism and its massacres, it’s a dark picture. I hope someone is listening, a lot of someones.
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