The End of Imagination (52 page)

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The End of Imagination

First published in
Outlook
and
Frontline
, July 27, 1998.

Democracy

Who Is She When She's at Home?

First published in the May 6, 2002, issue of
Outlook
magazine (India). A shorter version of this essay appeared under the title “Fascism's Firm Footprint in India” in
The Nation
magazine on September 30, 2002, and in
Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror
, edited by Betsy Reed (New York: Nation Books, 2002).

When the Saints Go Marching Out

The Strange Fate of Martin, Mohandas, and Mandela

This text is an expanded version of an essay originally broadcast by BBC Radio 4, August 25, 2003. By request of the BBC, which had determined that copyright restrictions prohibited it from broadcasting direct quotations from King's public speeches, the original used only paraphrases of King's words. In this version, direct quotations have been used.

In Memory of Shankar Guha Niyogi

This talk was delivered in Raipur, India, September 28, 2003, and first published in Hindi in Hindustan on October 13, 2003. Shankar Guha Niyogi was a popular trade union leader of Chhattisgarh.

How Deep Shall We Dig?

This is the full text of the first I. G. Khan Memorial Lecture, delivered at Aligarh Muslim University in Aligarh, India, on April 6, 2004. It was first published in Hindi in Hindustan, April 23–24, 2004, and in English in
The Hindu
, April 25, 2004. An excerpt also appeared in the
Los Angeles Times
, April 25, 2004. On the February 14, 2003, murder of I. G. Khan, see Parvathi Menon, “A Man of Compassion,”
Frontline
, March 29–April 11, 2003, www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2007/stories
/20030411004511400.htm.

The Greater Common Good

First published in
Outlook
and
Frontline
, June 4, 1999.

Power Politics

The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin

First Published in
Outlook
, November 27, 2000.

The Ladies Have Feelings, So…

Based on a talk given as the Third Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture, February 15, 2001, at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts.

On Citizens' Rights to Express Dissent

Court affadavit filed April 23, 2001. First published in Arundhati Roy,
Power Politics
, 2nd ed. (South End Press, 2001).

Ahimsa (Nonviolent Resistance)

First published in the
Hindustan Times
(India), June 12, 2002. This version is based on the version published in the
Christian Science Monitor
on July 5, 2002, as “Listen to the Nonviolent Poor: Allow for Peaceful Change, Before Violent Change Becomes Inevitable.”

The Algebra of Infinite Justice

First published in the
Guardian
, September 29, 2001, and
Outlook
, October 8, 2001.

War Is Peace

First published in
Outlook
, October 29, 2001.

War Talk

First appeared in
Frontline
(India) 19, no. 12 (June 8–21, 2002).

Come September

First presented as a lecture in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, September 18, 2002. Sponsored by Lannan Foundation: www.lannan.org.

An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire

The original version of this essay was first published in the
Guardian
(London), April 2, 2003.

The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky

Written as an introduction to the new edition of Noam Chomsky's
For Reasons of State
(New York: New Press, 2003).

Confronting Empire

First presented at the closing rally of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 27, 2003.

Peace Is War

The Collateral Damage of Breaking News

This is the text of a speech first delivered March 7, 2003, at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, at a workshop organized by Sarai: The New Media Initiative, CSDS, and the Waag Society in Delhi. It was first published in the
Sarai Reader 4: Crisis/Media
(New Delhi: Sarai, 2004). See http://www.sarai.net for additional information on Sarai.

Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy

(Buy One, Get One Free)

This talk was first delivered May 13, 2003, at the Riverside Church, New York City, and broadcast live on Pacifica Radio. The lecture, sponsored by Lannan Foundation and the Center for Economic and Social Rights, was delivered as an acceptance speech for the 2002 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom.

Do Turkeys Enjoy Thanksgiving?

This speech was delivered at the World Social Forum in Bombay, India, on January 14, 2004.

Public Power in the Age of Empire

This text is based on a public address delivered to an overflow crowd at the American Sociological Association's 99th Annual Meeting in San Francisco on August 16, 2004. The theme of the conference was “Public Sociologies.” The talk quickly aired on C-SPAN
Book TV
,
Democracy Now!
, and
Alternative Radio
, reaching audiences throughout North America and beyond, and was circulated via e-mail around the world.