A Book: An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire by Arundhati Roy

An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire : "Continuing where her earlier non-fiction books left off, Roy once again speaks around the world holding up a harsh light to leaders of economic and military might and power. One thing to note is Roy's wholistic view of resistance to injustice and progress by societies has evolved since her last writings. Many of her earlier speeches and essays stuck to a single issue- this book's speeches create links between economic power or powerlessness, racial or religious violence and the growing worldwide police state, and argues forcefully for a movement to stand up to these linked worldwide trends as a whole.

The speeches have the eloquence Roy's fans have always looked to her for. They also name names and provide numbers for those like me who like more than generalities. An all around great book. Just wish it was longer."

By S. L. Small
(Astoria, NY United States)

Arundhati Roy is a leading figure in the global peace and anti-corporate globalization movements, and her articles and speeches have appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers. In addition, Roy was awarded the Booker Prize, Great Britain's highest literary honor, for her novel "The God of Small Things."

NOTE: Last night, while flipping channels waiting for the Olympic Games to begin, I stopped on an extreme close-up of Arundhati Roy face. She was reading a speach at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco on C-Span2. What an amazing spirit! Roy has come to a lot of the same realizations has myself like Bush has got to go and it will take effort to put Team Kerry’s feet to the fire. But, her words had a great depth of wisdom behind them and were much more eloquent than mine. Sometimes channel surfing is a good thing.

DAM/AGE a Film about Arundhati Roy

DAM/AGE traces writer Arundhati Roy's bold and controversial campaign against the Narmada dam project in India, which will displace up to a million people. The author of The God of Small Things, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1998, Roy has also published The Cost of Living, a book of two essays critical of India's massive dam and irrigation projects, as well as India's successful detonation of a nuclear bomb. In her most recent book Power Politics, Roy challenges the idea that only experts can speak out on such urgent matters as nuclear war, the privatization of India's power supply by Enron and issues like the Narmada dam project.