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  • Azadi

  • Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
  • By: Arundhati Roy
  • Narrated by: Shaheen Khan
  • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (21 ratings)

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By: Arundhati Roy
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From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and pressing dispatch from the heart of the crowd and the solitude of a writer's desk.

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.

©2020 Arundhati Roy (P)2020 Penguin Audio
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Narration Needs Improvement

Helpful and intriguing read for my post grad project/dissertation. The narrator had poor pronunciation of names, terms and places was distracting as mentioned by other reviewers as well. At times the flow of speech was broken which also broke concentration.

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A shard of insight into modern India

This story is an unforgivingly critical look at modern day India through the lens of a socially conscience writer and journalist.

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Well worth a read, let down in part by the narrator

Interesting read. Narrator’s poor pronunciation of names and places was disappointing and distracting in parts.

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