02597cam a2200385 i 4500 8841 8841 22497688 OSt 20230118101245.0 220407t20222020ilu b 001 0 eng 9780670094417 (paperback) AEF 23rd ed. 323.440954 ROY Roy, Arundhati, author. 2578 Azadi : fascism, fiction, and freedom in the time of the virus / Arundhati Roy. Fascism, fiction, and freedom in the time of the virus Paperback edion. New York : Penguin Random house, 2022. ©2020 307 pages ; 19 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "The chant of "Azadi!"-Urdu for "Freedom!"-is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what 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. The coronavirus 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, she 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"-- Provided by publisher. Hindutva India. 2579 India Intellectual life. 2580 India Civilization 21st century. 2581 India Politics and government 1977- 2582 India Social conditions 1947- 2583 ddc Book 0 0 ddc 0 0 AEF AEF 2023-01-30 20 374.25 8087 2023-01-30 499.00 2023-01-30 Book