A stunning collection of Arundhati Roy's most powerful and controversial journalism. A few weeks after India detonated a thermonuclear device in 1998, Arundhati Roy wrote the essay 'The End of Imagination', in which she said: 'My world has died. And I write to mourn its passing.' The essay, as have all its successors, attracted worlwide attention, debate and acclaim as the voice of a brilliant Indian writer speaking out with clarity, conscience and passion. In the years since, the essays she has published in magazines and newspapers worldwide have reinforced this impression of a writer uniquely prepared in the modern world to use her fame and gifts in the cause of the voiceless and the overlooked.