Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God Of Small Things, then promptly gave up writing fiction for political activism and polemical books, including The Algebra of Infinite Justice, and Broken Republic. This latest book is in the same territory: it's a fierce attack on the current political state of India, where 100 people own assets worth a quarter of India's GDP, and hundreds of millions live on less than $2 a day. Roy shows how these modern robber barons exploit millions of people while plundering the nations natural resources, and controlling government policy making. It's an angry book, a collection of essays rather than a continuous narrative, but very worth reading if you care at all about the future of the world's most populous democracy.