Bibliography The Greater Common Good
The essay "The Greater Common Good" is a vigorous attack on the rationale and reality of the dams being built in the Narmada Valley. The essay, which takes apart the logic behind India’s dam building program, has generated a storm of publicity and controversy in India with copies being burnt in the street by pro–dam activists, and the Delhi Supreme Court threatening her with imprisonment for contempt of court.
With "The Greater Common Good,", Roy has added her voice to the tens of thousands of villagers and activists who have fought for more than a decade to halt the dam–induced destruction of the Narmada Valley.
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Brutality smeared in peanut butter (2001)
The article of the same name expresses Roy’s views on America’s war on terrorism.
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The algebra of infinite justice (2001)
First published in 2001, this book brings together all of Arundhati Roy's political writings so far. As the US prepares to wage a new kind of war, Arundhati Roy challenges the instinct for vengance.
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War Talk (2003)
War Talk is a collection of essays that highlight the global rise of religious and racial violence. From the horrific pogroms against Muslims in Gujarat, India, to U.S. demands for a war on Iraq, Roy confronts the call to militarism. Desperately working against the backdrop of the nuclear recklessness between her homeland and Pakistan, she calls into question the equation of nation and ethnicity. And throughout her essays, Roy interrogates her own roles as "writer" and "activist."
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An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire (2004)
In this fine collection of speeches and essays, Roy raucously argues against the global injustice of imperial democracy, narrow-minded nationalism, corporate fascism, the military industrial complex, privatization, and the ideology of those who would bomb civilians as part of a war campaign with unparalleled passion, clarity and rhetorical flare. Hers is a voice confronting the powers of empire.
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