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A review by noushin_nuri
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
5.0
Though it was written in a very Indian context referencing events I barely know about, I could relate very well as a Bangladeshi. I have seen how cross-ownership, especially corporations' ownership of media has given them the freedom to do the hell they want, how artists, journalists and all dissidents have been mercilessly silenced and wiped out.
What drew me very close to this book was how Arundhati repainted the people who were wiped out, how she went into each case point by point. How she has cared for the people who the governments didn't care to give a fair trial even before the death sentence.
This was a thorough and serious non-fiction. But in a part Arundhati mentions an event that made me live in that moment in a way even many fictions can't. I'll just give a hint: the warmth of boiled eggs warmed my heart. If you are reading this book, I bet you will feel intense emotion in this part. What sort of emotion I don't know but feel you must!
What drew me very close to this book was how Arundhati repainted the people who were wiped out, how she went into each case point by point. How she has cared for the people who the governments didn't care to give a fair trial even before the death sentence.
This was a thorough and serious non-fiction. But in a part Arundhati mentions an event that made me live in that moment in a way even many fictions can't. I'll just give a hint: the warmth of boiled eggs warmed my heart. If you are reading this book, I bet you will feel intense emotion in this part. What sort of emotion I don't know but feel you must!