A few weeks after india detonated a thermonuclear device in 1998, Arundhati Roy wrote the essay "The end of imagination," In which she said: "My world has died. And I write to mourn its passing." The essay, as have all i...A few weeks after india detonated a thermonuclear device in 1998, Arundhati Roy wrote the essay "The end of imagination," In which she said: "My world has died. And I write to mourn its passing." The essay, as have all its successors, attracted worldwide attention, debate and acclaim.