I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me,… — 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
Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In India, we have a right wing that is so vicious and so openly wicked, which is the Baratiya Janata party (BJP),… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
India is still flinching from a cultural insult, still looking for its identity. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I hope that that the people in the Occupy movement are politically aware enough to know that their being excluded from the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every person that's walking down… — 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
In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of… — 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
Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Three-quarters of India lives on the edge of the market economy. You can't tell them that only those who can afford water… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Bog je zamenjen Marksom, Satana buržoazijom, raj besklasnim društvom, a crkva partijom, dok su vrsta i cilj putovanja ostali slični. Trka s… — 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
