India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the… — 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
India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition. — 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
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
In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Just a few years ago India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were one country. Actually, we were many countries if you count the princely… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When you think of how much violence, how much blood... how much has been destroyed to create the great nations, America, Australia,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The religious rightwingism is directly linked to globalization and to privatization. When India is talking about selling its entire power sector to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So, it's about egalitarianism. It's about… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I know that a world in which countries are stockpiling nuclear weapons and using them in the ways that India and Pakistan… — 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
I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this council which… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Because of who I am and what place I have now in India, I'm petitioned all the time to get involved. It's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Suddenly Ammu hoped that it had been him that Rahel saw him in the march. She hoped it had been him that… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In India, 100 of the richest people own assets worth 25% of the gross domestic product. There's something terribly wrong. No individual… — 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
