Azadi is history book by author Arundhati Roy.
Song of Azadi! – Urdu for “freedom!” – is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris consider to be the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it has also become the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu Nationalism. What lies between these two calls to freedom? An abyss or a bridge?
In this insightful series of political and literary essays, Arundhati Roy examines this question and challenges us to reflect on what it means to be free in an increasingly authoritarian world.
Roy writes about the existential threat to Indian democracy because Hindu nationalism is encouraged. The internet shutdown and information siege in Kashmir – the densest military region in the world. India’s new citizenship laws discriminate against Muslims and other marginalized communities and could create a stateless crisis on a scale previously unknown known.
