Arundhati Roy is known as much for her political activism as for her fictional narratives. A collection of essays by the winner of the Booker Prize, coloured by political and social opinions, have been bound under one title in this very book. A personal view of the author regarding nuclear weapon testing in the Indian subcontinent, an impacting story surrounding the communal riots of Gujarat and many other write-ups regarding everything from globalisation to terrorism to capitalism are present in this compilation. Purely reflecting the individualistic opinion of the author regarding issues that plague the world today, as written over a period of half a decade, Roy's essays make for a non-fictional read with a difference.
