Oct 21, 2006 The Very Strange Story of the Attack on the Indian Parliament
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,
Aug 31, 2018 The vulnerable are being cordoned off and silenced. The vociferous are being incarcerated.
Sep 22, 2007 Judges in India are divine beings. And if you're an ex-CJI, your sins are above mortal reproach.
Mar 20, 2010 Gandhians with a Gun? Arundhati Roy plunges into the sea of Gondi people to find some answers...
Jul 15, 2016 What exactly does azadi mean to Kashmiris? Why can’t it be discussed? Since when have maps been sacrosanct?
Jul 25, 1998 "My world has died. I write to mourn its passing." Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy on India's Nuclear Bomb.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
Oct 31, 2009 A math question: How many soldiers will it take to contain the mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people?
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.
Jun 12, 2010 The peril of having your words rendered suspect and aired nationally