A review by titus_hjelm
AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. by Arundhati Roy

4.0

This is a truy eye-opening book. We Europeans talk bout Trump's America and Orban's Hungary as the worst horror-stories of the new rise of Fascism, but it is India where we should look to see how bad things can get. Roy is fierce is her assessment of the state of the nation. But the most interesting parts are where she talks about the power of fiction in coping with the situation. Comrised of talks and essays from a short period before and just after the pandemic, there is an uderstandable, if somewhat annoying amount of repetition here. Nevertheless, a must read for anyone concerned about the dark future where fascism is taking us.