Montag, 24. Juni 2024

Arundathi Roy: Freiheit, Faschismus, Fiktion - nicht nur zur aktuellen Situation in Indien (aktualisiert)

Arundhati Roy: 

AZADI
  • Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.

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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.
 

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Arundhati Roy's "Azadi" --- 
Narendra Modi is pushing Indian society
to the brink
Narendra Modi stößt die indische Gesellschaft an den Rand des Abgrunds

Arundhati Roy's recent volume of essays and lectures provides an eye-opening account of current political developments in India. Written during the run-up to the last general election, "Azadi" charts India's disturbing slide into authoritarianism. Richard Marcus read the book
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Rezension / review:  Richard Marcus in Qantara.de, 20.01.2021

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