Is Anybody Listening?

Abstract

The book is an uneven collection of essays, opinion pieces, speeches and other writings published between 2002 when an estimated 2,000 Muslims were massacred in the western state of Gujarat and the aftermath of last November's terror attacks in Mumbai. Roy calls the collection “a detailed under-view” of the darker side of the world's largest democracy or what she describes as “the cunning, Brahmanical, intricate, bureaucratic, file-bound 'apply-through-through-the-proper channels' nature of governance and subjugation in India.”