After the dazzling international success of "The God of Little Things," Arundhati Roy, after a long absence, returned to India to find a country dominated by a climate of exalted patriotism. The nationalist coups proclaimed the strength of India thanks to its nuclear power. The escalation of tension with neighboring Pakistan resulted in a series of demonstrations of force consisting of performing atomic tests in desert areas near the border that were answered by the other State with new explosions. In this brief and devastating report, the extraordinary novelist Arundhati Roy puts his writing at the service of a just and necessary cause: the denunciation of the use of nuclear energy for warlike purposes. And it addresses the hypocrisy surrounding the issue, these weapons are presented as guarantors of peace through "deterrence", the new situation created after the geopolitical changes...read more