“Any government's condemnation of terrorism is only credible if it shows itself to be responsive to persistent, reasonable, closely argued, non-violent dissent.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We often confuse or loosely use the ideas of crony capitalism or neoliberalism to actually avoid using the word "capitalism", but once… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
After Iraq, there's been Libya, there's Syria, and the rhetoric of, you know, democracy versus radical Islam. When you look at the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If you look at Indian society, it's a society made up of minorities. There's nobody who's not a minority, whether it's ethnicity,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In India the new government - the members of the radical Hindu Right who want India to be a 'Hindu Nation' -… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I actually did a quick survey of how caste plays out in contemporary India. The idea that democracy and development have in… — 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 Image
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 Image
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really.... — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
