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Walking with the Comrades Paperback – October 25, 2011

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From the award-winning author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline exposé of brutal repression in India

In this fiercely reported work of nonfiction, internationally renowned author Arundhati Roy draws on her unprecedented access to a little-known rebel movement in India to pen a work full of earth-shattering revelations. Deep in the forests, under the pretense of battling Maoist guerillas, the Indian government is waging a vicious total war against its own citizens-a war undocumented by a weak domestic press and fostered by corporations eager to exploit the rare minerals buried in tribal lands. Roy takes readers to the unseen front lines of this ongoing battle, chronicling her months spent living with the rebel guerillas in the forests. In documenting their local struggles, Roy addresses the much larger question of whether global capitalism will tolerate any societies existing outside of its colossal control.

"A riveting account . . . a necessary book by one of India’s most distinctive voices." -Washington Post
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"A riveting account . . . a necessary book by one of India’s most distinctive voices." -Washington Post

“A bell-clear exposé of corporate greed and governmental malfeasance that should--if there is any justice in the world--provoke a furious backlash in the name of human dignity.” -Kirkus (starred review)

"Informed, impassioned, at times strident, and fleet and fascinating when describing life on the ground among the rebels, Roy’s prose will both rouse and ruffle . . . she ultimately points to a global system in which all we’re all crucially involved and implicated." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize. She has produced numerous works of political commentary and investigative journalism, including The Algebra of Infinite Justice, An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, and Listening to Grasshoppers. She lives in New Delhi, India.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Publishing Group; 1st edition (October 25, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 220 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 014312059X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143120599
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.55 x 7.5 inches
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Arundhati Roy is the author of a number of books, including The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and has been translated into more than forty languages. She was born in 1959 in Shillong, India, and studied architecture in Delhi, where she now lives. She has also written several non-fiction books, including Field Notes on Democracy, Walking with the Comrades, Capitalism: A Ghost Story, The End of Imagination, and most recently Things That Can and Cannot Be Said, co-authored with John Cusack. Roy is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize, the 2011 Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing, and the 2015 Ambedkar Sudar award.

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brianmpa
5.0 out of 5 stars A Fight for Justice in India
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2012
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Walking with the Comrades  Ms. Roy describes the desperate fight in the forests of India by very large groups of people trying to save their way of life and their environment. The exploitative forces of international capitalism have come to India where, as we see in the U.S. and elsewhere around the globe, profit and greed rule. While people in the U.S. may think the fight of the so-called Maoists in India has nothing to do with them, they need to think again. The battleground between international corporations and the people is everywhere. It's also a fight to save our planet from moving into runaway climate change that will change life as we know it today. Ms. Roy describes the hardships and suffering of ordinary people pushed to the edge of existence by powerful corporate/government forces attempting to exploit every last resource of the forest and land in India. What we see today in the U.S. with massive exploitation of our environment in coal mining, fracking operations, tar sands mining in Alberta, may create an environment here where ordinary people will need to fight back as they are currently in central India. The ominous message of Ms. Roy's book, "Walking with the Comrades" is that a low level war against the corporate/government forces may be in our future here in North America. A must read book, beautifully written, for those who care about justice.
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wil
5.0 out of 5 stars viva comrades....walk on....
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2014
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Although much of the information in Comrades was in Roy's "Capitalism a Ghost Story" it was exceptional because of her experience with the Maoist and their supporters. Nowhere have I seen anything like this story. It exposes the superficiality of stories such as the (horrible) rapes on buses.
It was as if I was reading about the First Nations of the Americas (as they were being slaughtered and driven off the land which they needed to survive) in real time. The historical data about former (Naxalite etc) struggles was essential.
Roy is courageous in her writing and in her travels with the rebels. She has reinforced in me the fact that I, by my own lifestyle contribute to the murderous international consumer capitalist insanity....and therefore remain an armchair socialist and a hypocrite.
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Abhilash Nambiar
3.0 out of 5 stars Informative but not balanced, but that is ok
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2012
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This is one of those narratives that are consistent with facts from several independent sources and sheds light on real issues impacting India today and impeding progress in the world's largest democracy. I got the sense from reading this (I believe rightly so), that the war between the maoists and the government is in reality a proxy war between the upper caste Hindus and the Indian tribals. It has morphed into a capitalism vs maoism fight because Upper Caste Hindus have had constant interaction with the Western world and have assumed capitalistic habits through osmosis. While the tribals cut off from the rest of the world found themselves receptive to the maoist tactics of prolonged rural warfare.

So a centuries old conflict now has a modern skin. This conflict will end when the tribals embrace capitalism. Capitalism knows not nor cares about caste, it knows only of money. When the tribals understand money, their influence will be enhanced in mainstream Indian society. Centuries old caste based values will take a back seat as caste barriers begin to crumble. India will experience yet another economic resurgence. Like in China, old maoists will become the new Capitalists. And as Tribals and Upper Caste Hindus freely interact in under the new capitalistic regime, caste boundaries will dilute even further.

But Arundhati Roy will still remain a leftist. So she won't solve any problems. She is an indicator that there is one.
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Luis Ruelas
5.0 out of 5 stars Eye opening
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2013
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I found this book eye opening. There are so many parallels which can be drawn between the situation in India and in so many other countries where native people and poor peasants are being dispossessed and exterminated in the name of "civilization" and economic gains which ar in the hands of a few.

I would highly recommend this book. It shows the way in which general opinion is manipulated and the public is made to believe an alternate reality which is non existant.
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Ajoy Kumar Palanivelu
5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful and articulate
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2020
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Roy is brilliant and effective in championing the right to tribals to live like they have done for so many centuries and the conflicts they face
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Abdul
5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing insight into the "greatest single security threat to India"
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2018
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A beautifully written book, extremely comprehensive introduction to the situation in India. I would recommend it to anyone interested in Indian current events, leftist politics, or the struggle of corruption and capitalism. Great read, definitely give it a go
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Nikhil Sharma
3.0 out of 5 stars A longform magazine article camouflaged as a book
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2014
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This book is actually an Outlook Indian magazine article being sold as a book. You may read this article here: https://www.english.upenn.edu/sites/www.english.upenn.edu/files/WalkingwiththeComrades.pdf

Nonetheless, I am treating this as a book while rating it (because that's how I read it before discovering that it's an article):
Roy has been well known in India for supporting the downtrodden and supporting them by giving them her own voice. Whether it is protesting construction of dams, mining corporations or plain Capitalism - she's opposed all of them. Often correctly.

She goes and lives with the Maoists of India and brings out a world which is very uncommon to the masses. She does a decent job in bringing out why the Maoists are opposing 'development' and what is that they want. She however is not all smitten by them. She does criticize them as well for their mindless violence. The book doesn't cover the history of how it all started nor is it academic in its analysis, it can be read as a memoir of living with the Maoist comrades in the jungles of central India sprinkled with some history and philosophy.

Wish this was an actual book and it was much longer.
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Patrick O'Connell
5.0 out of 5 stars Another excellent story by Ms. Roy - many more need to know about what is happening in India right now
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2015
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Arundhati Roy is a courageous, compassionate writer who is a great storyteller. I had no idea that India was waging a massive war against its poorest people living in the jungles for their corporations. A very tragic story that many more need to know about. The question that kept running through my mind as I read: what would Gandhi do?
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Jay
5.0 out of 5 stars An eye opener
Reviewed in India on March 18, 2021
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I had never read any of Roy's books, but after reading this one I feel I have missed a lot. The book, as the title suggests, is about our people in the jungles trying to save what can be saved. These resilient warriors and their heartwarming stories show what they go through every day, and how oblivious we are of what goes on in the name of power and money. Thank you, Arundhati for writing this beautiful book. I know I will read it again, and yet again.
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J. Bagot
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Canada on August 3, 2019
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Sergio
5.0 out of 5 stars Muy interesante
Reviewed in Spain on June 18, 2017
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Una perspectica diferente de la situación en la India. Ningún medio de comunicación te comentará las cosas así. A pesar de eso, las conclusiones de Arundhati caen en el ecologismo simple.
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BAYANA R.
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read.
Reviewed in India on October 8, 2023
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A sneak peak into the lives of people who think they are fighting for their rights some times which at times may not be true
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Torol
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on October 24, 2015
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I had to buy this for a class.
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