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My Seditious Heart

Written by: Arundhati Roy
Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy, read by Tania Rodrigues.

My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment. Taken together, the essays speak in a uniquely spirited voice, marked by compassion, clarity and courage. Radical and superbly readable, they speak always in defence of the collective, of the individual and of the land, in the face of the destructive logic of financial, social, religious, military and governmental elites.

In constant conversation with the themes and settings of her novels, the essays form a near-unbroken memoir of Arundhati Roy's journey as both a writer and a citizen, of both India and the world, from 'The End of Imagination', which begins this book, to 'My Seditious Heart', with which it ends.

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Critic Reviews

'every page gifts you her far seeing, her calm and intelligent urgency, the wisdom and relief of her articulacy, her courage'
Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time (Naomi Klein)
Arundhati Roy calls for 'factual precision' alongside of the 'real precision of poetry.' Remarkably, she combines those achievements to a degree that few can hope to approach (Noam Chomsky)
Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays (Howard Zinn)
The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating
Arundhati Roy is one of the few great revolutionary intellectuals in our time . . . courageous, visionary, and erudite (Cornel West)
Her incomparable divining rod picks up the cries of the despised and the oppressed in the most remote corners of the globe; it even picks up the cries of rivers and fish. With an unfailing charm and wit that makes her writing constantly enlivening to read, her analysis of our grotesque world is savagely clear, and yet her anger never obscures her awareness that beauty, joy, and pleasure can potentially be part of the life of human beings (Wallace Shawn)
Roy is of course a consummate storyteller...[the essays] are thick with intelligence and firmly bolstered with fact.
An author worth waiting two decades for
A passionate political masterpiece'
All stars
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A must read to understand the other side of the story. Marvelled at it. What a collection!

A must read

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Dams can be used for a variety of purposes. Agriculture, drinking water for growing cities, and even expanding industrial demands, crop cultivation should be one of the first priorities. Thus in this progressive work, there may be some losers and some winners as well I believe.
When it comes to the United States and the United Kingdom, both are known and credited for their inventiveness -innovation (from the steam engines to airplanes to modern-day computers).
The dark side(flip side) of a coin is that power, politics, military, and business have resulted in widespread abuse of resources and life. Thank you for sharing insight into politics, power being the civilian voice.

cons and prons

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Makes you think, wonder, and open your eyes to the real India that's so neatly brushed under the carpet. The stink of which has been masked over and over again by the scent of the flower garlands around the necks of its netas.

Know your India. Listen/Read this book.

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All the Non-fiction works of Arundhati Roy complied in one book is a must listen if you don't have time to read. Read it for a better understanding and statistics. Performance could have been better if Audible had an Indian to perform for Indian works because a lot of words miss their correct pronounciation.

One of the best Non-fiction work.

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I TOLD MY CHILDREN THAT I WISH THAT THEY SHOULD LISTEN OR READ THIS BOOK ONCE IN A LIFE TIME TO MAKE AN HONEST OPINION ABOUT INDIA.

EXCELLENT BOOK

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