About the Book: My Seditious Heart: Collected Non-Fiction
My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy
devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice,
rights and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment. Taken together,
these essays trace her twenty year journey from the Booker Prize-winning The God
of Small Things to the extraordinary The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: a journey
marked by compassion, clarity and courage. Radical and readable, they speak
always in defence of the collective, of the individual and of the land, in the
face of the destructive logic of financial, social,