And A Fleece That's As White As Snow
'What does it matter if I fail?' asks the Booker winner on her second novel and of course, the first work of fiction since The God of Small Things

Magazine | Jul 28, 2008

'The Army Has To Come Out'
'The Indians are teaching the Americans, too, how to occupy a place ... The occupation of Kashmir has taken place over years. ... In Iraq, you have 125,000 or so American troops in a situation of war, controlling 25 million Iraqis. In Kashmir, you have 700,000 Indian troops fully armed there .. and creating a situation, making it worse and worse and worse.'

Web | May 25, 2006

'Baby Bush Go Home'
'The Indian government is negotiating India into a corner where ... you're trying to pretend that you're making some equal deal, but actually, you're officially signing a deal with an alligator ... it's not an equal partnership by any means.'

Web | Mar 04, 2006

'If Bush Is So Acceptable To Manmohan And The Congress, Why Lose Sleep Over Modi?'
The world is a small place. At least it is to the Booker-winning author. She talks on, perhaps, every defining topic of our times.

Magazine | Aug 22, 2005

I'm Not At All Playing For Sainthood'
All one does is to continue to write and say what one writes and says. Then the rest of it is a fallout that you have to deal with and realize and that the option is to shut up and go away. Is that what I want to do? I don't know.

Web | Sep 15, 2004

'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'. Transcript of The Democracy Now! interview telecast on May 19.

Web | May 20, 2004

'The Failure Of Non-Violence Bothers Me'
' It's the failure of being able to use that as a weapon that bothers me and disturbs me, because I don't know what to think then,' says Arundhati Roy, while discussing and answering questions on big dams and her involvement with NBA. Sept 18, PBS Wide Angle..

Web | Sep 19, 2003

'I'm A Pre-Programmed Optimist'
Full transcript of the interview with Democracy Now! on May 12, 2003  where the celebrated author spoke on a wide range of issues - her childhood, GOST, the court cases against her, Gujarat, her activism, the so called 'war on terror' and much more.

Web | Jun 02, 2003

'I Do What I Do Because I Have To'
'I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.' The celebrated author on her new book,War Talk.

Web | May 28, 2003

'The Outline Of the Beast'
America has been stripped of its mask. Its secret history of brutal interventions and unforgivable manipulations is street talk. The dots have been joined, and the outline of the beast has emerged.

Web | Apr 09, 2003

"All Indian Writers Get Lumped With Rushdie... It's Irritating"
After winning the Booker, Arundhati Roy spoke to Sanjay Suri in her hotel room in London between other interviews, flights and time zones:

Magazine | Oct 27, 1997

"I Had Two Options—Writing Or Madness"
In her most exhaustive interview to date, Arundhati Roy goes to the heart of her novel

Magazine | Apr 09, 1997