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The Cost of Living: The Greater Common Good and The End of Imagination

The Cost of Living: The Greater Common Good and The End of Imagination

Name: The Cost of Living: The Greater Common Good and The End of Imagination
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Arundhati Roy
ISBN: 9780002571876

Arundhati Roy

15/11/1999
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Couverture de The Cost of Living: The Greater Common Good and The End of Imagination par Arundhati Roy

Résumé

, flooding the land they've farmed for generations in order to build This text is Arundhati Roy's tale of governmental (and international-agency) arrogance, high-handedness, corruption and idiocy. The Narmada Valley in north-western India is home to 25 million people (i.e. half the population of Britain), and since the 1970s successive federal and state governments have been intent on forcibly evicting these peoplea series of giant dams that will, notionally, allow irrigation to bri ng water to those who need it in the region's cities, allow the land to bear different crops and improve the region's economy.