181 Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan with CPI leader D. Raja, author-activist Arundhati Roy, former DUSU President Nandita Narain and others during a press conference demanding immediate release of Dr. G N Saibaba, in New Delhi.
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281 Author Arundhati Roy joins farmers' ongoing protest against the new farm laws, at Tikri Border in New Delhi. | PTI Photo
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381 Arundhati Roy celebrates her 1997 Booker win with then husband Pradip Krishen | Photograph by Gauri Gill
481 Author Arundhati Roy addresses a gathering, during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), outside the Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi | PTI Photo
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581 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 University campus in New Delhi.
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681 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 University campus in New Delhi.
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781 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 hostel of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Oct. 15, 2016, following a scuffle the previous night with some students allegedly affiliated to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). The Central Bureau of Investigation has finally closed the case of missing student as the agency's efforts to trace him have yielded no results, officials said. | PTI Photo/Subhav Shukla
881 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 Delhi.
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981 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 the Forum for the Protection of Free Speech and Expression in support of Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen in New Delhi. | PTI Photo
1081 Vroom vroom, coming in for a hug. Arundhati Roy celebrated her 1997 Booker Prize win with a mildly enthusiastic Pradip Krishen in London. | Photograph by Gauri Gill
1181 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. | Photo by Tribhuvan Tiwari/Outlook
1281 Novelist Arundhati Roy presents her book "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" at the Parco della Musica Auditorium, in Rome. | Giorgio OnoratiANSA via AP
1381 | Photograph by Tribhuvan Tiwari
1481 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 second novel, will be out next year. | Photograph by Narendra Bisht
1581 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 the universities and to demand the release of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University students who were arrested along with their union president last month for sedition charges. | AP Photo/Manish Swarup
1681 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. | PTI Photo
1781 Room 1001, Ritz Carlton, Moscow: Edward Snowden’s exiled quarters where actor-writer John Cusack brings Arundhati and Dan Ellsberg to meet him | Ole Von Uexküll
1881 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. | PTI Photo/Vijay Verma
1981 Mothers Narmada all Out here, it’s the women who carry the struggle | AP
2081 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 environmental and human rights causes at her residence in New Delhi | Narendra Bisht
2181 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.
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2281 Indian author Arundhati Roy and founder editor-in-chief of Outlook Vinod Mehta's Wife at the launch of Vinod Mehta's book, Editor Unplugged, in New Delhi.
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2381 Author Arundhati Roy and Publisher at Penguin Books India Chiki Sarkar at the launch of Vinod Mehta's book, Editor Unplugged, in New Delhi.
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2481 Author Arundhati Roy at the launch of Vinod Mehta's book, Editor Unplugged, in New Delhi.
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2581 Author Arundhati Roy at the launch of Vinod Mehta's book, Editor Unplugged, in New Delhi.
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2681 Author Arundhati Roy at the launch of Vinod Mehta's book, Editor Unplugged, in New Delhi.
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2781 Not One To Plug
Just before Vinod Mehta's book Editor Unplugged was to be launched, he was wheeled into the ICU. He never made it back, and to make amends, there was a launch of his book by ‘friend and philosopher’ Arundhati Roy as Vikram Seth eloquently read out passages from it. It was a warm and poignant evening with friends and fans, just as Mehta would have liked it. | Sanjay Rawat
2881 Author Arundhati Roy at the launch of Vinod Mehta's book, Editor Unplugged in New Delhi. | Photo by Sanjay Rawat/ Outlook
2981 From right, Member of Rajya Sabha D Raja, Political Editor of Outlook Magazine. Saba Naqvi, Author Suzanna Arundhati Roy, during the cremation of veteran journalist Vinod Mehta in New Delhi. | Photo by Sanjay Rawat/ Outlook
3081 Arundhati Roy addressing a press conference in Nagpur. | PTI Photo
3181 Arundhati Roy | Narendra Bisht
3281 Mary Roy, women rights activist and mother of Man Booker prize winner Arundhati Roy, has joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). | File Photo
3381 Arundhati Roy | Narendra Bisht
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3581 Eminent Novelist and writer Arundhati Roy at her residence in New Delhi. | Narendra Bisht
3681 Eminent Novelist and writer Arundhati Roy at her residence in New Delhi. | Narendra Bisht
3781 Eminent Novelist and writer Arundhati Roy at her residence in New Delhi. | Narendra Bisht
3881 Eminent Novelist and writer Arundhati Roy at her residence in New Delhi.
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3981 Eminent Novelist and writer Arundhati Roy at her residence in New Delhi.
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4081 Eminent Novelist and writer Arundhati Roy at her residence in New Delhi. | Narendra Bisht
4181 Eminent Novelist and writer Arundhati Roy at her residence in New Delhi. | Narendra Bisht
4281 Eminent Novelist and writer Arundhati Roy at her residence in New Delhi. | Narendra Bisht
4381 Eminent Novelist and writer Arundhati Roy at her residence in New Delhi. | Narendra Bisht
4481 Eminent Novelist and writer Arundhati Roy at her residence in New Delhi. | Narendra Bisht
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4681 Arudhati Roy, at Press Club of India in New Delhi. | Narendra Bisht
4781 Arudhati Roy, at Press Club of India in New Delhi. | Narendra Bisht
4881 Arudhati Roy, at Press Club of India in New Delhi. | Narendra Bisht
4981 Arudhati Roy, at Press Club of India in New Delhi. | Narendra Bisht
5081 Arundhati Roy, Indian novelist and activist, at a press conference on issue of Binayak Sen's life term imprisonment in Press Club of India, New Delhi. | Sanjay Rawat
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5281 Arundhati Roy, Indian novelist and activist, at a press conference on issue of Binayak Sen's life term imprisonment in Press Club of India, New Delhi. | Sanjay Rawat
5381 Arundhati Roy, Indian novelist and activist, at a press conference on issue of Binayak Sen's life term imprisonment in Press Club of India, New Delhi.
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5481 Prashant Bhushan, a member of Lokpal Bill drafting committee, with author-activist Arundhati Roy during a public convention against corruption in New Delhi. | PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist
5581 Arundhati Roy addressing activists of All India Students Association during a demonstration in support of Binayak Sen, at Jantar Manter in New Delhi. | PTI photo/ Atul Yadav
5681 P. Chidambaram vs Arundhati Roy
After Roy’s pointed jibes, the Union home minister came back with a diatribe in Parliament: “If the CPI (Maoist) overthrows the established authority and seizes power, will they allow any human rights organisation to function in
this country? Will all those who write 33-page articles be allowed to write 33-page articles?” he asked, taking a dig at Roy’s long essay on the subject in Outlook. Roy didn’t blink.
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5781 Writer-activist Arundhati Roy is escorted by security personnel as ABVP activists protest against her remarks on Kashmir, during her visit to Bhubaneswar. | PTI Photo
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5981 October 1997 She’s Bookered! Pradip Kishen congratulates his wife
Arundhati Roy on her winning the Man Booker prize for The God of Small Things. | Gauri Gill
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6181 Writer-activist Arundhati Roy watches a protest after her speech was interrupted by it during Chairman of the hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani's convention on 'Azaadi, the only way', in New Delhi. | PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist
6281 Writer-activist Arundhati Roy watches a protest after her speech was interrupted by it as volunteers request for calm during Chairman of the hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani's convention on 'Azaadi, the only way', in New Delhi. | PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist
6381 Writer activist Arundhati Roy speaks during a meeting in New Delhi protesting the killing of freelance journalist Hem Chand Pandey in an alleged fake police encounter. Pandey was killed along with Maoist leader Azad in an encounter on July 2 in the Wankhidi forests of Adilabad in Andhra Pradesh.
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6481 Renowned novelist and social activist Arundhati Roy addressing a public meeting in Mumbai | PTI Photo by Mitesh Bhuvad
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6681 Framed Arundhati Roy, among the Maoists |
6781 Human Rights activist Goutam Navalakha and eminent writer and social activist Arundhati Roy jointly address a press conference on operation Green Hunt in Kolkata. | PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra
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7181 Dateline Dantewada: Roy with the Maoists |
7281 Arundhati Roy, a rights activist and Booker prize-winning novelist speaks
at a press conference in New Delhi. Roy voiced her concerns about the government's
proposed military offensive against Maoist rebels in the tribal-dominated areas
of Central India. | AP Photo/Saurabh Das
7381 Jeet Gayii! The day she won the Booker! | Stefan Rousseau/AP
7481 Saturday 29 MayNovelist and human rights activist Arundhati Roy was awarded the 2004 Sydney Peace Prize for her work in social campaigns and advocacy of non-violence. The prize, the only international peace prize awarded in Australia, is awarded to an organisation or individual who has made significant contributions to global peace, including improvements in personal security and steps towards eradicating poverty and other forms of structural violence. "Arundhati Roy has been recognised for her courage in campaigns for human rights and for her advocacy of non-violence, as expressed in her demands for justice for the poor, for the victims of communal violence, for the millions displaced by the Narmada dam projects and for her opposition to nuclear weapons", the jury's citation read. | AP Photo
7581 Arundhati Roy, Writer-ActivistModern India’s most captivating multi-causal writer and essayist, Arundhati Roy has agitated against nuclear proliferation, participated in the Narmada Bachao Andolan and passionately opposed the Iraq war. And, of course, there’s the Booker-winning The God of Small Things, an international bestseller. Originally trained as an architect, she mined into her campus life to script the 1988 cult classic, In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones. Other film assignments include a role in Massey Sahib (1985) and the screenplay of Electric Moon (1991). Arundhati Roy’s account, The Road to Harsud, on the death of a 700-year-old town caused by the Sardar Sarovar Dam, was our July 26, 2004 cover story. | Gireesh G.V
7681 Friday 13 MaySocial activist and Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy wishes good luck to a passenger and activist of "Right of Employment Bus" during its flagging off function in New Delhi. The Left parties and several voluntary organisations have launched the bus yatra, which will cover six northern Indian states, to consolidate the campaign for a universal and irreversible National Employment Guarantee Act. The one-month tour will seek to affirm the right to work as an aspect of the Fundamental Right to live with dignity. CPI(M) leader in Rajya Sabha Nilotpal Basu has also accused former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh of delaying the implementation of the law. Singh, a BJP leader, heads the parliamentary standing committee on rural development, which is examining the act and the amendments recommended by various parties. | AP Photo
7781 Arundhati Roy joined the Tibetan monks at a protest in New Delhi on Saturday, April 12, 2008.
The week also saw the high-profile IPS officer, Kiran Bedi, announcing her refusal to run in the relay
with the Olympic Torch to be held on April 17, 2008.. "I cannot run in a cage. The security measures will reduce the torch run into mere tokenism and formality. Being a democratic country, we ought not to suppress democratic ways. Let them (Tibetans) demonstrate on one side and let the relay happen too. I am for a balance. Run the torch with a sense of participative space and manage dissent (Tibetan protests) without snuffing it
out," she said.
7881 Wednesday February 13, 2008 (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 the Forum for the Protection of Free Speech and Expression in support of Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen in New Delhi on Wednesday. PTI Photo
7981 Social activist Arundhati Roy speaks to former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Rajinder Sachar during a press
conference organized by the People's Union for Civil Liberties(PUCL) in New Delhi to condemn the arrest of their
Chhattisgarh state general secretary Binayak Sen on May 14 for alleged links with banned Maoist groups. PUCL has
stated Sen has been victimised for campaigning against the controversial anti-naxal Salwa Judam movement and
speaking out against atrocities by members of the group. Sen, a pediatrician, has been working for years in the villages
of Chhattisgarh, trying to evolve a low cost health plan in a region where there's little or no administrative support. He is
also one of the loudest critics of the Salwa Judum movement and was at the forefront of a campaign by the PUCL
against fake encounters.
| AP Photo/Gurinder Osan
8081 Writer-activist Arundhati Roy participates in a demonstration at the CPI(M) headquarters in New Delhi organised by activists of the National Alliance of People's Movement, a group of various civil societies, against the West Bengal government's decision to give agricultural land to Tata Motors car project in Singur. Rubbishing allegations of double standards by it in the Singur land aquisition issue, the CPI(M) said the "opportunist combine" of BJP, Mamata Banerjee and Medha Patkar was spreading canard against the party and the Left Front government. In an editorial in the party mouthpiece People's Democracy, polit bureau member Sitaram Yechury singled out the Trinamool Congress alleging that it was trying to create mayhem in Singur by bringing people from outside armed with lethal weapons. Yechury's comments came a day after Medha accused the CPI(M) of following 'double standards' by trying to evict farmers at Singur for car project when it was fighting against their displacement in other states. | AP Photo/Manish Swarup
8181 Monday 8 May
In a major blow to the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), the Supreme Court has declined its plea to stop the ongoing construction work to raise the height of Sardar Sarovar Dam from the existing 110 metres to 121.92 m at this stage. The order was passed by a Bench headed by Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal after Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramanian submitted that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has constituted a three-member committee to look into the relief and rehabilitation work for project-affected families in Madhya Pradesh and the committee was likely to submit its report by June to him. The court also expressed the hope that all the parties concerned would fully cooperate and not cause any obstruction in the work of survey teams constituted by the group. |
