An activist's restless dialogue

Patriarchy, misogyny, and many other social ills that confronted IAS-turned activist Aruna Roy are recorded with painful honesty, in all their nuance, in her memoir

The Personal is Political: An Activist’s Memoir

Author: Aruna Roy

Publisher: HarperCollins

Pages: 304

Price: Rs 599

The world is cruel, unjust, unequal. You are an activist and you want to change it. How do you do this? And how do you proceed, with the vehicle that you’ve created, to set things right after it has outlived its usefulness  —not because the world has become a better place but because the vehicle has become a deadweight?

This is among the many questions that this book raises. It is a tormented, restless dialogue of the author with herself about a life she