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
Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It's OK just to be a writer, who writes about the society in which he lives and the issues that most important.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“People—communities, castes, races and even countries—carry their tragic histories and their misfortunes around like trophies, or like stock, to be bought and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
People who promote the free market and growth are far more romantic, and far more ideologically driven and blinded by their vision… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“People – communities, castes, races and even countries – carry their tragic histories and their misfortunes around like trophies, or like stock,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market"… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“this foggy little back lane, with its everyday humdrumness, its vulgarity, its unfortunate but tolerable inequities, its donkeys and its minor cruelties,… — 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
