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A review by briandice
Broken Republic: Three Essays by Arundhati Roy
5.0
I purchased this book at the airport in Mumbai for the 2 1/2 hour flight to Kathmandu - and the three essays were so well written, so engaging and heartbreaking, I couldn't put the book down. Roy's treatise on the poor and disenfranchised of India is a larger discussion about where unfettered global imperialistic capitalism is taking us, and the costs from a local level (down to individual stories) straight through to the effect on national democratic discourse.
Have you seen the movie "Avatar"? Did you cheer when the indigenous people fought back and ousted the off-planet humans that wanted to rape-and-pillage their eco-balanced land? Then you definitely need to read this book, and find out that in the real world, indigenous people never win - and that all of us Westerners are the consumers that fuel the fire for this travesty.
Read this book.
Have you seen the movie "Avatar"? Did you cheer when the indigenous people fought back and ousted the off-planet humans that wanted to rape-and-pillage their eco-balanced land? Then you definitely need to read this book, and find out that in the real world, indigenous people never win - and that all of us Westerners are the consumers that fuel the fire for this travesty.
Read this book.