Broken Republic: Three Essays

01 June, 2011

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Arundhati Roy

Penguin Books India,

232 pages, R499

This volume brings together three powerful essays—'Mr Chidambaram's War', 'Walking with the Comrades' and 'Trickledown Revolution'—which combine brilliant analysis and reportage, and through which Roy raises some fundamental questions about modern civilisation.

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