Book Summary : An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire.

Arundhati Roy’s ‘an ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire’ (collection of her 14 essays or speeches she delivered in 2003-2004) became the first book, I finished in 2016. Thank you Ujjwal Acharya Dai for the gift. As Promised to Ujjwal dai here’s my summary of the book. The book is a chilling & eye-opening account of the struggle of people against "empire"(cartel of self-interested corporate organizations & power hungry "pro-development" governments). How the other side of story of this struggle is continuously being...

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sculpt~

“So you believe in it, don’t you? This whole stupid idea of romance, flowers and candlelight dinners and even the ridiculous ‘happily-ever-afters’, you have an unflinching faith in it, admit it! Damn! How did I ever miss it when I looked into your eyes for the first time? Perhaps my vision was clouded too…by this demeanour of yours.” And she pulled her hair back, dextrously letting the rubber band slip from her slim wrist on to her hair...

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At 6 am

At 6 amto be here in the lakewatching lightsketch upon the pitch-darkwith its finest pastelsis to knowhow a sea of lovegently swellsagainst the containing wallof the ribsthat tellsheart from bone At 6 ambefore the mind cribs'mean and routine',before man-soundand engine grunthunt and bluntthe sensesbefore a city awakensand a dead-livingcommences At 6.15 amwhile I am stilla whiffbeyond 'what if'a blade of grassseeking...

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