{"product_id":"9781608464616","title":"Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Gorgeously wrought . . . pitch-perfect prose. . . . In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again.\"—\u003ci\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Roy asks whether our shriveled forms of democracy will be 'the endgame of the human race'—and shows vividly why this is a prospect not to be lightly dismissed.\"—Noam Chomsky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time.\"—Naomi Klein\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow in paperback, with a new introduction by the author discussing the election of India's new prime minister Narendra Modi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism, and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe describes the systematic marginalization of religious and ethnic minorities, the rise of terrorism, and the massive scale of displacement and dispossession of the poor by predatory corporations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eField Notes on Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e tracks the fault-lines that threaten to destroy India's precarious democracy and send shockwaves through the region and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArundhati Roy\u003c\/b\u003e is a world-renowned Indian author and global justice activist. From her celebrated Booker Prize–winning novel \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e to her prolific output of writing on topics ranging from climate change to war, the perils of free-market development in India, and the defense of the poor, Roy's voice has become indispensable to millions seeking a better world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031455285488,"sku":"9781608464616","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608464616_p0.jpg?v=1763834864","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608464616","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}