Review: Listening to Grasshoppers
User Review - Srikanth Mantravadi - GoodreadsPowerful writing. As much as I prefer that Arundhati write fiction, her current job as a "literary crusader" if she can be called that is also leading to interesting results. I am aware of the ... Read full review
Review: Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy
User Review - Marianne - GoodreadsListening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy is the 12th non-fiction book by Booker Prize winning author, Arundhati Roy. In this collection of eleven related essays, the author of The God Of ... Read full review
Review: Listening to Grasshoppers
User Review - Umesh Kesavan - GoodreadsTypical Arundhati Roy -anti-USA,anti-Dams,anti-Globalisation,anti-Modi,anti-State-in short Anti-everything. Wish to be more critical of her politics yet she is so wonderfuly readable that her political stances can be digested. Read full review
Review: Listening to Grasshoppers
User Review - Anoop Krishnan - GoodreadsA rare view on the dark shades of our democracy! The feminism and the compelling bias towards the minority are pardonable considering the bigger picture what author tries to reveal. Read full review
Review: Listening to Grasshoppers
User Review - Sailesh - GoodreadsFans of balanced reporting will find the lack of it to be off-putting. But to those willing to look past that and question the idea of balance for the sake of it, there is a book to be read. To those ... Read full review
Review: Listening to Grasshoppers
User Review - Trond Sjöström - GoodreadsIn this compilation of essays, Roy, hints at historical materialism in a profound and enlightning way, when discussing problems with represenative parlamentarism, symbols, idealism and the practical ... Read full review
Review: Listening to Grasshoppers
User Review - Venky Uppala - GoodreadsA peek at the underbelly of the largest democracy in the world- whether it is the Gujarat carnage or the excesses of the Indian security forces in Kashmir,Roy's scathing attack on the state of the affairs reveals the chilling ruthlessness that is Indian politics. Read full review
Review: Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
User Review - Broadsnark - GoodreadsRoy writes so beautifully that even mundane details are poetic. Some essays are better than others, but they are all interesting - especially for someone like me who really doesn't know shit about Indian politics. Read full review
Review: Listening to Grasshoppers
User Review - Tarquin Hall - GoodreadsEarlier this year, I interviewed a senior economic adviser to the Indian government. When I challenged his view that India would soon be a “superpower” and referred to the country's 600m poor, he shot ... Read full review
Review: Listening to Grasshoppers
User Review - Sameer - GoodreadsRoy has a very engaging way of stringing together facts and giving them a larger historic context. As someone who grew up in India, and was exposed to these "facts" in isolation, it's interesting to ... Read full review
