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The End Of Imagination: Revisiting Arundhati Roy’s seminal essay 25 years since Pokhran and Chagai

The End Of Imagination: Revisiting Arundhati Roy’s seminal essay 25 years since Pokhran and Chagai

The End Of Imagination | Outlook Magazine “My world has died. I write to mourn its passing.” – Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy on India’s Nuclear Bomb. “The desert shook,” the Government of India informed us (its people). “The whole mountain turned white,” the Government of Pakistan replied. “By afternoonRead More

Pokharan: The End of Imagination [Arundhati Roy]

Pokharan: The End of Imagination [Arundhati Roy]

Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Tests May 10, 2013 at 11:04 pm 0 comments

The nuclear bomb is the most anti-democratic, anti-national, anti-human, outright evil thing that man has ever made. If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man’s challenge to God. It’s worded quite simply: We have the power to destroy everything that You have created. If you’re not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old.