Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Every time I say the word capitalism, everyone just assumes I have plenty of Marxism in me, I do. But Russia and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It's all a play. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen, there are hundreds of thousands of dead, and the curtain comes down, and that's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I don't think the state will allow people to occupy a particular space unless it feels that allowing that will end up… — 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
