She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed…

...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

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

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

— Arundhati Roy

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

— Arundhati Roy

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

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

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

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

— Arundhati Roy

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

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

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

Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really…

— Arundhati Roy

“...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

“stilts, the ground floors given over to parking. It’s a good idea in this car-maddened city,”

— Arundhati Roy

“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