Capitalism: A Ghost Story

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

by Arundhati Roy
Capitalism: A Ghost Story

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

by Arundhati Roy

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Overview

The “courageous and clarion” Booker Prize–winner “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,’ and—because these must not be impeded no matter what—generous 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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781608464296
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 02/13/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 136
Sales rank: 84,329
File size: 321 KB

About the Author

Arundhati Roy is a world-renowned Indian author and global justice activist. From her celebrated Booker Prize–winning novel The God of Small Things to her prolific output of writing on topics ranging from climate change to war, the perils of free-market "development" in India, and the defense of the poor, Roy's voice has become indispensable to millions seeking a better word. Her recent nonfiction books include Field Notes on Democracy and Walking with the Comrades. She lives in New Delhi, India.

Table of Contents

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

Preface:
The President Took the Salute

Section I
Ch 1: Capitalism A Ghost Story
Ch 2: I would rather not be Anna
Ch 3: Dead Men Talking

Section II
Ch 4: Kashmir's Fruits of Discord
Ch 5: A Perfect Day for Democracy
Ch 6: Consequences of Hanging Afzal Guru

Afterword:
Ch 7 Speech to People's University 16 Nov 2011
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