{"id":625,"date":"2026-07-21T22:05:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/?post_type=product&#038;p=625"},"modified":"2026-07-21T22:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:05:45","slug":"azadi-freedom-fascism-fiction-by-arundhati-roy","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/?product=azadi-freedom-fascism-fiction-by-arundhati-roy","title":{"rendered":"Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. by Arundhati Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\" data-testid=\"description\">\n<div class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\">\n<div class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\">\n<div class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\">\n<p><span class=\"Formatted\">From the best-selling author of\u00a0<i>My Seditious Heart<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>the Ministry of Utmost Happiness<\/i>, a new and pressing dispatch from the heart of the crowd and the solitude of the writer&#8217;s desk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The chant of &#8220;Azadi!&#8221;\u2014Urdu for &#8220;Freedom!&#8221;\u2014is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. 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