The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s.

Examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. This book looks 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.

This 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. Beginning with the state-backed pogrom against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, Arundhati Roy writes about how the combination of Hindu N

A few weeks after India detonated a thermonuclear device in 1998, Arundhati Roy wrote the essay The End of Imagination , in which she said: My world has died. And I write to mourn its passing. This is a collection of her subsequent essays.

On October 7th 2001, US-led forces invaded Afghanistan. Bringing together some of the contemporary writers, this anthology, from reportage and faction to fiction, explores the impact of this long war throughout the world, from Palestine to Iraq, Abu Ghraib, the curtailment of civil liberties and manipulation of public opinion.

Addresses some of the urgent questions which have been posed by the war in Afghanistan.

Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize. The richly exotic story of the childhood the twins Esthappen and Rahel craft for themselves amongst India's vats of banana jam and mountains of peppercorns. Now available for the fist time on CD.

An utterly entrancing new collection of essays, as controversial, inspirational and passionate as anything Arundhati Roy has yet written.

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What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning? This title provides an exploration of the political picture in India. It shows how the journey that Hindu nationalism and neo-liberal economic reforms began together in the early 1990s is unravelling in dangerous ways.

Blink showcases the work of 100 contemporary photographers, selected by 10 critics, curators and creative directors based around the world. Essentially an exhibition in a book, it provides an overview of the world of photography, presents the most exciting photographers of today and predicts the stars of tomorrow.

A SERIES OF ESSAYS - AND POEMS BY KURT VONNEGUT - AROUND THE THEME OF THE CONTINUING DANGER OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS USE.

As a novelist, Arundhati Roy is known for her lush language and intricate structure. As a political essayist, her prose is searching and fierce. All of these qualities shine through in the interviews collected by David Barsamian for The Chequebook and the Cruise Missile, recorded between 2001 and 2003.

Aims to document the history of the Iraq war. This work examines the various aspects of the war - from its legality to the effects of cluster bombs and depleted uranium, its ecological impact to the history of US and British military interventions in Iraq, and from the role of international organizations in the occupation to the use of torture.