Arundhati Roy
Viking/ Penguin Books India, New Delhi, 2001
Rs 472
A collection of Arundhati Roy's political writings so far: The End of Imagination; The Greater Common Good; Power Politics; The Ladies Have Feelings, So; The Algebra of Infinite Justice; War is Peace. The essays are carefully researched and closely argued, and deal with big dams, India's detonation of its nuclear bomb, the downside of corporate globalisation, and the US government's 'war against terror'.