Roy’s response to the rebirth of nuclear proliferation. She severely criticizes India and the Western superpowers, who according to her, are responsible for the dawn of nuclear testing in third world nations. Roy also criticizes India for actions that she saw as foolhardy and that signify "dreadful things - The end of imagination. The end of freedom, actually, because that is what freedom is. The choices that India made in testing nuclear weapons, Roy feels, took away the very freedom it was intended to reinforce. Nuclear testing was India embracing and condoning the horrors of the very western culture it was trying so desperately to defy. According to Roy, nuclear proliferation signifies a new and diabolical form of colonization; for this, she criticizes colonized and colonizer alike. More » The Cost of Living (1999)
The Cost of Living is a collection of essays including “The Greater Common Good”. The book has been widely praised and critically acclaimed. More » Power Politics (2001)
In this book Roy explores the politics of writing and the price of "development" driven by profit. She challenges the idea that only "experts" can speak out on such urgent matters as nuclear war, the human costs of the privatization of India's power supply by U.S.-based energy companies, and the construction of monumental dams in India. More »
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