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Capitalism

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The ';courageous and clarion' Booker Prizewinner ';continues her analysis and documentation of the disastrous consequences of unchecked global capitalism' (Booklist). From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country's one hundred richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India's gross domestic product.Capitalism: A Ghost Story examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism have subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation. ';A highly readable and characteristically trenchant mapping of early-twenty-first-century India's impassioned love affair with money, technology, weaponry and the ';privatization of everything,' andbecause these must not be impeded no matter whatgenerous doses of state violence.' The Nation ';A vehement broadside against capitalism in general and American cultural imperialism in particular... an impassioned manifesto.' Kirkus Reviews ';Roy's central concern is the effect on her own country, and she shows how Indian politics have taken on the same model, leading to the ghosts of her book's title: 250,000 farmers have committed suicide, 800 million impoverished and dispossessed Indians, environmental destruction, colonial-like rule in Kashmir, and brutal treatment of activists and journalists. In this dark tale, Roy gives rays of hope that illuminate cracks in the nightmare she evokes.' Publishers Weekly

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ISBN: 9781608464296
Publication date: 14th April 2014
Author: Roy, Arundhati
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Format: Ebook (Epub)