<div><p>"Gorgeously wrought . . . pitch-perfect prose. . . . In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again."?<I>Time Magazine</I></p><p>"Roy asks whether our shriveled forms of democracy will be 'the endgame of the human race'?and shows vividly why this is a prospect not to be lightly dismissed."?Noam Chomsky</p><p>"Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time."?Naomi Klein</p><p>Now in paperback, with a new introduction by the author discussing the election of India's new prime minister Narendra Modi.</p><p>This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism, and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy.</p><p>She describes the systematic marginalization of religious and ethnic minorities, the rise of terrorism, and the massive scale of displacement and dispossession of the poor by predatory corporations.</p><p><I>Field Notes on Democracy</I> tracks the fault-lines that threaten to destroy India's precarious democracy and send shockwaves through the region and beyond.</p><p><B>Arundhati Roy</B> is a world-renowned Indian author and global justice activist. From her celebrated Booker Prize?winning novel <I>The God of Small Things</I> to her prolific output of writing on topics ranging from climate change to war, the perils of free-market development in India, and the defense of the poor, Roy's voice has become indispensable to millions seeking a better world.</p></div>