Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy is an acclaimed Indian novelist, essayist, and activist, born on November 24, 1961, in Shillong, India. She gained international fame with her debut novel, The God of Small Things, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. The novel, set in Kerala, delves into the intricacies of family life, love, and social issues, particularly focusing on the caste system, post-colonial history, and the cultural landscape of India.

In addition to her literary work, Roy is known for her outspoken activism on various political and social issues, including environmental concerns, human rights, and the consequences of globalization. She has written extensively on issues such as the Kashmir conflict, nuclear policies in India, and the impact of corporate influence on Indian society.

Articles by the author

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.

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I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

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I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.

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When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. I thought that 300 people would read it. But it created a platform of trust.

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You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

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The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

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Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

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