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'And His Life Should Become Extinct'

'And His Life Should Become Extinct'

Oct 21, 2006

The Very Strange Story of the Attack on the Indian Parliament

Summer Games With Nuclear Bombs

Summer Games With Nuclear Bombs

Jun 05, 2002

Full text of the article, excerpts from which were broadcast on Radio 4's Today program on June 1 in the UK; text courtesy,

#Me Too Urban Naxal: Full Text Of Arundhati Roy's Open Statement

#Me Too Urban Naxal: Full Text Of Arundhati Roy's Open Statement

Aug 31, 2018

The vulnerable are being cordoned off and silenced. The vociferous are being incarcerated.

Scandal In The Palace

Scandal In The Palace

Sep 22, 2007

Judges in India are divine beings. And if you're an ex-CJI, your sins are above mortal reproach.

Walking With The Comrades

Walking With The Comrades

Mar 20, 2010

Gandhians with a Gun? Arundhati Roy plunges into the sea of Gondi people to find some answers...

Azadi

Azadi

Jul 15, 2016

What exactly does azadi mean to Kashmiris? Why can’t it be discussed? Since when have maps been sacrosanct?

The End Of Imagination

The End Of Imagination

Jul 25, 1998

"My world has died. I write to mourn its passing." Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy on India's Nuclear Bomb.

The Greater Common Good

The Greater Common Good

May 15, 1999

India has 3,600 big dams—they have devoured 50 million people already. Silently. Now it's the turn of the Narmada.

The Greater Common Good II

The Greater Common Good II

Jul 03, 1999

Arundhati Roy accepts B.G. Verghese's compliments on her poetic writing, but refutes his rebuttal of the randomly selected facts from her argument

Power Politics:
The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin

Power Politics: The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin

Nov 18, 2000

Arundhati Roy explores the power politics that unites the indian elite, its big buisness and the Multinationals, endangering in the process not only the country's economy but also its real people.

Shall We Leave It to the Experts?

Shall We Leave It to the Experts?

Jan 05, 2002

"I am, apparently, a writer-activist. (Like a sofa-bed.) Why does that make me flinch?" asks Arundhati Roy. Because it suggests writers are too effete to come up with the clarity for debate. "Go and play with your toys, leave the real world to us," g

Defence Of Dissent

Defence Of Dissent

Apr 21, 2001

On January 2, 2001, five advocates filed a petition in the Supreme Court for contempt of court and 'attempt to murder', among other charges, against Arundhati Roy, Prashant Bhushan, lawyer for the NBA, and Medha Patkar. The SC has admitted the petiti

Democracy

Democracy

Apr 27, 2002

Who's she when she's at home?

The Algebra Of Infinite Justice

The Algebra Of Infinite Justice

Sep 29, 2001

So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the 'massacre of innocent people' or, if you like, 'a clash of civilisations' and 'collateral damage'. The sophistry and fastidious algebra of Infinite Justic

War Is Peace

War Is Peace

Oct 20, 2001

The world doesn't have to choose between the Taliban and the US government. All the beauty of the world—literature, music, art—lies between these two fundamentalist poles.

Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy.
Buy One, Get One Free

Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy. Buy One, Get One Free

May 17, 2003

When a country ceases to be merely a country and becomes an empire, then the scale of operations changes dramatically. ... I speak as a subject of the American Empire. I speak as a slave who presumes to criticise her king.

Who Pulled The Trigger...Didn't We All?

Who Pulled The Trigger...Didn't We All?

Feb 19, 2005

Must we in our hypernationalism take a man who has already suffered enough and reduce him to fish bait? Can we—and our media—stop judging S.A.R. Geelani

Breaking The News

Breaking The News

Dec 09, 2006

December 13. The season for reopening old wounds....A hyper campaign, a mysterious TV update, a book that sifts myth from fact on the Afzal issue. Updates

Listening To Grasshoppers

Listening To Grasshoppers

Jan 26, 2008

Genocide, Denial And Celebration
It's an old human habit, genocide is. It's a search for lebensraum, project of Union and Progress.

The Briefing

The Briefing

Jul 19, 2008

Arundhati Roy's first work of fiction since The God of Small Things in 1997 is an allegory, a powerful fable about Climate Change, the War on Terror and Corporate Raj

Azadi

Azadi

Aug 23, 2008

It's the only thing the Kashmiri wants. Denial is delusion.

9 Is Not 11

9 Is Not 11

Dec 13, 2008

(And November isn't September)

Mr Chidambaram’s War

Mr Chidambaram’s War

Oct 31, 2009

A math question: How many soldiers will it take to contain the mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people?

Arundhati Roy Replies...

Arundhati Roy Replies...

May 29, 2010

At no point have I called the Maoists 'Gandhians with Guns'... Honestly, I am almost embarrassed to have to write this letter.

Knocks On The Door: It’s The Newspaper Boy

Knocks On The Door: It’s The Newspaper Boy

Jun 12, 2010

The peril of having your words rendered suspect and aired nationally

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