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challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
Magazines, neither online nor printed, are not the medium for me. I am a cover-to-cover reader and the very different articles in each issue make me confused and I loose track. This compilation of Arundathi Roy's journalism onto ca 1000 pages clearly shows that it is not the content of journalistic articles that I have trouble with.
Roy is witty, precise, empathetic, unapologetic and fearless. The content of her articles would make me loose faith in humanity, curl up in a corner and just give up on the planet it it were not for her abilitiy to somehow find hope and turn that hope into anger and resistance. I don't live in India. But I have learned a lot about the really extremeply complex recent history of that place from Roy. It also made me question some assumptions about human beings. Most of all it confronted me with the human capacity for extreme violence that certainly needs to be taken into account when imagining a peaceful and just world.
Roy is witty, precise, empathetic, unapologetic and fearless. The content of her articles would make me loose faith in humanity, curl up in a corner and just give up on the planet it it were not for her abilitiy to somehow find hope and turn that hope into anger and resistance. I don't live in India. But I have learned a lot about the really extremeply complex recent history of that place from Roy. It also made me question some assumptions about human beings. Most of all it confronted me with the human capacity for extreme violence that certainly needs to be taken into account when imagining a peaceful and just world.
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