“painted in weather-colors now. With brushes dipped in nature’s palette. Mossgreen. Earth-brown. Crumbleblack” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“White-walled once. Red-roofed. But painted in weather-colors now. With brushes dipped in nature’s palette. Mossgreen. Earth-brown. Crumbleblack” — 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
“She described how, when her brother’s body was found in a field and brought home, his fists, clenched in rigor mortis, were… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Perverted quality; Moral perversion; The innate corruption of human nature due to original sin; Both the elect and the non-elect came into… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I use the word love loosely, and only because my vocabulary is unequal to the task of describing the precise nature of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The whole privatisation of health and education, of natural resources and essential infrastructure - all of this is so twisted and so… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“It wasn't what lay at the end of her road that frightened Ammu as much as the nature of the road itself.… — 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
Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war, or a remote rural war or even an exclusively… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess… — 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
Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little… — 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
