In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the… — 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
Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time… — 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
Whatever else their faults may be, they were not radical Islamist states - Iraq was not, Syria is not, Libya was not.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller, in Latin America, in Indonesia, where almost a million people,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When was the last time the United States won a war? You know, it lost in Vietnam. It's lost in Afghanistan. It's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Today, the Indian government is trying to present privatization as the alternative to the state, to public enterprise. But privatization is only… — 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
Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia,… — 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
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
Your short-term gains are the rest of the world's long-term disasters - for everybody, including yourselves. And, I'm sorry, I've been saying… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all...… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I don't think the state will allow people to occupy a particular space unless it feels that allowing that will end up… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodeled to be market-friendly. So now the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When the United States invaded Iraq, a New York Times/CBS News survey estimated that 42 percent of the American public believed that… — 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
