Author Arundhati Roy joins farmers' ongoing protest against the new farm laws, at Tikri Border in New Delhi.
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Arundhati Roy celebrates her 1997 Booker win with then husband Pradip Krishen
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Author Arundhati Roy addresses a gathering, during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), outside the Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi
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Actor Zeeshan Ayyub speaks as noted writer-activist Arundhati Roy and economist Arun Kumar are seated next to him during a protest against the amnended Citizenship Act at Delhi Uni...
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Noted writer-activist Arundhati Roy with Fahad Ahmed, a student at the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), during a protest against the amnended Citizenship Act at Delhi Unive...
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Fatima Nafis (C), mother of Najeeb Ahmad, with social activist Arundhati Roy (L) and other protestors, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Ahmad had gone missing from the Mahi-Mandvi ho...
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Author Arundhati Roy celebrates Eid with Kashmiri students who could not reach their families in the wake of abrogation of Article 370 in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, in New Del...
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In this file photo, (From Left) Outlook Editor-in-Chief Vinod Mehta, writer Arundhati Roy, playwright and actor Girish Karnad and writer Mahasweta Devi during a press conference of...
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Vroom vroom, coming in for a hug. Arundhati Roy celebrated her 1997 Booker Prize win with a mildly enthusiastic Pradip Krishen in London.
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Writer and activist Arundhati Roy (R) and senior advocate Prashant Bhushan, addresses at a press conference on the recent crackdown on rights activists, in New Delhi.
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Novelist Arundhati Roy presents her book "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" at the Parco della Musica Auditorium, in Rome.
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Ministry Of Expectations
Fans besotted with The God of Small Things have harried Arundhati Roy on her next novel for almost two decades. This week came the good news—The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, her...
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Writer and activist Arundhati Roy right, talks to a student during a march to the parliament house, in New Delhi. The march was against the alleged interference of government in th...
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Author Arundhati Roy and NCP leader Chhagan Bujbal paying tribute to the statues of late Mahatma Phule and his wife at an award ceremony, in Pune.
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Room 1001, Ritz Carlton, Moscow: Edward Snowden’s exiled quarters where actor-writer John Cusack brings Arundhati and Dan Ellsberg to meet him
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Social activist Arundhati Roy with FTII students during their protest march from Mandi House to Jantar Manter for the removal of the FTII Chairman Gajendra Chauhan, in New Delhi.
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Mothers Narmada all Out here, it’s the women who carry the struggle
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Arundhati Roy, author and political activist who is best known for the 1998 Man Booker Prize for Fiction-winning novel The God of Small Things (1997) and for her involvement in env...
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Author Arundhati Roy and Justice Leila Seth, first woman judge on the Delhi High Court, at the launch of Vinod Mehta's book, Editor Unplugged in New Delhi.
Umar Khalid has been arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in a case related to the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February this year.
Prashant Bhushan said that scandalising the court or lowering the authority of the court is the problematic part of the contempt case as that is directly in conflict with freedom of speech.
"My Seditious Heart" collects Arundhati Roy's entire work spanning over two decades since the author first decided to devote herself to the political essay as a way of "opening up space for justice, rights and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment."
Last week, a junior court assistant had sent written complaints to 22 judges, alleging she was sexually harassed by Chief Justice Gogoi in October 2018.
When contacted, Roy was even-handed in her response -- neither keen to be used in this manner for strategic ends, nor willing to step back from her considered stance.
Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi on Saturday quoted Roy's statement that the "whole population of Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims, and Christians are being forced to live in terror"
Roy, who won the literary award worth 50,000 pounds for her debut book 'The God of Small Things' in 1997, had featured on the long-list for her latest novel 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness'.
The story-strands in Arundhati Roy's new novel 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness', spin out to encompass and tie up almost all the themes that drove her non-fiction in the 20 years since her first novel, but it's also a vision of dark, comic-fabulist genius.
When the refusal of ‘the new normal’ takes fictional form, what comes out is a sprawling tale of the triumph of broken lives—blossoms cutting defiantly through rock