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The Cost of Living

Arundhati Roy

  • 135 pages · about 2 hours
  • First published 1999
  • 8 editions
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1 About this book

Describes how India's ambitious dam projects created suffering along with modernization.

  • Environmental aspects
  • Democracy
  • Common good

2 About Arundhati Roy

Born 1961

Suzanna Arundhati Roy (Bengali pronunciation:; born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.

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