What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I hope that that the people in the Occupy movement are politically aware enough to know that their being excluded from the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
India has millions of internally displaced people. And now, they are putting their bodies on the line and fighting back. They are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Look at the Israel-Palestine conflict, for example. If you look at a map from 1947 to now, you'll see that Israel has… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When was the last time the United States won a war? You know, it lost in Vietnam. It's lost in Afghanistan. It's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“It turned out to be a war which, unfortunately for Comrade Pillai, would end almost before it began. Victory was gifted to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Never counted in the "costs" of war are the dead birds, the charred animals the murdered fish, incinerated insects, poisoned water sources,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war, or a remote rural war or even an exclusively… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodeled to be market-friendly. So now the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“stilts, the ground floors given over to parking. It’s a good idea in this car-maddened city,” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
