Broken Republic- PB

Broken Republic by Arundhati Roy talks about India and the large multinational companies that are taking over India's poor people's businesses. Mining Maoism poverty cruelty and whether India is truly advancing in development are also discussed in detail in the book. Roy ridicules the large mining companies like Posco and Vedanta who are exploiting miners and tribals in Chhattisgarh and Orissa.She shares her wonderful experience with the Naxalites in the Chhattisgarh forests and describes how kind and nice they were to her. Describing their fears of how the government is eradicating them from their homeland she takes readers into a world that is unseen.The author brings the reader's attention to the Maoist Cherukuri Rajkumar who was trying to settle a negotiation between the Maoists and the government and was mysteriously killed. The author raises questions about the government's involvement in his death. Broken Republic was published by Penguin India in 2013 and is available in paperback. About the Author Arundhati Roy is a social activist and an author. She has won Lannan Foundation's Cultural Freedom Award in 2002 the Woman of Peace at the Global Human Rights Awards in 2003 the Sydney Peace Prize in 2004 the Norman Mailer Prize in 2011 for her exceptional writing and the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. She has acted in the film Massey Saheb and also wrote the television serial called Banyan Tree. Her books include Power Politics War Talk The Greater Common Good The Cost of Living The End of Imagination Walking with the Comrades and Public Power in the Age of Empire Seven.