India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“To be present in history, even as nothing more than a chuckle, was a universe away from being absent from it, from… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
People can be extraordinarily resilient and show extraordinary grace and humour even in moments of tribulation. I've always found that it's much… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present? — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Every time I say the word capitalism, everyone just assumes I have plenty of Marxism in me, I do. But Russia and… — 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
When people stop some film from being shot or burn a book, it's not just that they are saying, this is against… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“At the time I was being celebrated for having made ‘India’ (whatever that means) proud. It was an odd place to be… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he… — 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
“Glanced up and caught Ammu's gaze. Centuries telescoped into one evanescent moment. History was wrong-footed, caught off guard. Sloughed off like an… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“By the time they got back, the lights were all out and everybody was asleep. Everybody, that is, except for Guih Kyom… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.” — arundhati roy Copy Share Image
“It was the kind of time in the life of a family when something happens to nudge its hidden morality from its… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody who plans my life. In fact, I don't know what's going to happen here in India, it's such a… — 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
“The time has come, the Walrus said. Perhaps things will become worse and then better. Perhaps there's a small god up in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Ironically both of them were on the pavement that night to escape their past and all that had circumscribed their lives so… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Because of who I am and what place I have now in India, I'm petitioned all the time to get involved. It's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do! — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must… — 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
