Una colección de brillantes e incisivos ensayos sobre temas de candente actualidad, dirigidos a todos los que desean que la democracia y la justicia lleguen hasta el último confín de la tierra, desde la escalada nuclear en la que rivalizan India y el Paquistán hasta la denuncia de los errores y falacias de la retórica propagandística norteamericana, dirigida a «justificar» la guerra de Irak.
Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays.
For her work as an activist she received the Cultural Freedom Prize awarded by the Lannan Foundation in 2002.