“The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“To be present in history, even as nothing more than a chuckle, was a universe away from being absent from it, from… — 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
If you look at the history of the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller, in Latin America, in Indonesia, where almost a million people,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“....though he hated to admit it, they were all Anglophiles. They were a family of Anglophiles. Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Glanced up and caught Ammu's gaze. Centuries telescoped into one evanescent moment. History was wrong-footed, caught off guard. Sloughed off like an… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.” — arundhati roy Copy Share Image
After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and… — 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
“History’s smell. Like old roses on a breeze. It would lurk forever in ordinary things. In coat hangers. Tomatoes. In the tar… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them imagine that the earth… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to… — 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
“As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Which decent human being on… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We're supposed to forget whatever happened in the past because 9/11 is where history begins. Okay, since 2001, how many wars have… — 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
