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Arundhati Roy

Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author. She is best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. This novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes

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Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shoul ...

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunatel ...

I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of peo ...

When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a dec ...

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dre ...

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse ...

Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or P ...

Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War is peace.

Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shop ...

There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to ...

I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be impris ...

Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but ...

I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be roman ...

The amassing of unfettered wealth of individuals and corporations should stop. The inheritance of ri ...

Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a ...