Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy

Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes On Democracy by Arundhati Roy, is a collection of essays written on India’s democracy and the bitter truth associated with it. Roy questions readers about what the end result of democracy will be. She feels that only the upper 10 percent of society enjoy a democracy, while the rest are subdued to surviving through their same poverty stricken lives.