...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who… — 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
I am very conscious that, from the time of 'The God of Small Things' was published 10 years ago, we are in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
People say to me, Oh, it's so wonderful that you're writing about real things, and that it's a political thing to do,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We ought to say, "Occupy Wall Street, not Iraq," "Occupy Wall Street, not Afghanistan," "Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine." The two need… — 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
