My Seditious Heart Paperback – 1 January 2019

Reads like a history of India in the 20 years between her 2 fiction books - a fairly secret history that is secret no more thanks to Arundhati and those who are strong enough and talented enough to be like her.Along with Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein and Yanis Varoufakis, this collection confirms Arundhati Roy as a key voice of our times.I can't recommend this is enough for anyone who wants better insight into the deadly effects and the wanton destruction (social and ecological) of the pursuit of corporate Hindutva.She mainly focuses on India of course but also explains the situation we are in, to different degrees, in every country. This is one brave woman. Speaking out as she does in the cauldron of far-right fervour that has been bred in India means she is always at risk, of persecution, arrest and worse.She bares witness, researchers in details and explains in her powerfully clear way the stories of people and lands that have no voice and no coverage in the corporate media in their fight against eradication.It's a big read (1000 pages) that is set in chronological order and contains all her key big essays, introductions and speeches. One could just dip into it, but I tackled it from start to finish and is well worth the effort.

Beautiful collection of brave insightful essays by one who is unafraid to be the voice of dissent. That is not however the main aim of the book. Intoxicated as always by her incisive, evocative use of language. Her words will lift you through the length of the book with pleasure and with ease!

It is this woman who can churn an art out of a political essay. The topics chosen are by no means a soft target i.e., nuclear test, big dams, kashmir, naxals, etc., towards which every average Indian has a very strong prejudice.These essays will shake the very fundamental ideological elements upon which the prejudice is built.Author's observations are not merely theoretical, rather an outcome of extensive travel to the affected areas and close association with concerned movements for decades. If you are ready to face the facts beyond the accepted norms, go for it...Beware, this might break your pro-development nationalism..!!

If you have never read Roy's works, it is ok. You must pick this one up. It is a collector's delight.

Fell in love with the book, its content, its cover, its smell. Hardcover for such a low price, it is a book you must have on your shelf. ♥️

Arundathi Roy has excellent clarity of thoughts and the way she penned her thoughts into her essays is beyond words. Her writings may not impress many people but we need such writers in this era of ‘Benality of Evil’

Those who want to read about any issues facing India a must read collection of facts straight on face without censor. I am a regular reader and admirer of Ms AR.

Incomparable & incredible collection of haunting facts through a pen of a hard but humane human being of a mobile republic in true sense.

This book by a very critical author, came in the best condition ---- very clean and excellently packaged. Arundhati Roy is a writer after my own heart and Bruce is a bookseller who delivers high quality works with commendable speed. I'll buy from this store again in a heartbeat.

A big, ol' collection of Arundhati Roy's non-fiction writings. Very informative about 1 of the biggest and most populous countries in the world.

An amazing author and intrepid freedom fighter!