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.
AZADI : Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. - Arundhati Roy
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