Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy (born in 1961) is an Indian novelist, activist and a world citizen. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things. Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya. She left Kerala for Delhi at age 16. Since winning the Booker Prize, she has concentrated her writing on political issues. These include the Narmada Dam project, India's Nuclear Weapons, corrupt power company Enron 's activities in India. She is a figure-head of the anti-globalization / alter-globalization movement and a vehement critic of neo-imperialism.

 

Arundhati Roy: Maailman eliitit pitävät hävitystä sivilisaationa, TL:n muistoja, 1.6.2020

Toisenlainen maailma ei ole vain mahdollinen, se on jo tulossa, 1.10.2014 (Arundhati Roy)

Arundhati Roy, Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy. Hamish Hamilton 2009.

Arundhati Roy, The Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire. Flamingo 2004.

 

 

Modi's model is at last revealed for what it is: violent Hindu nationalism underwritten by big business, The Guardian, 18 February 2023

On Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History, ZNet, 1 May 2022

A Fascist World is Breathing by Arundhati Roy and Laura Flanders, ZNet, 24 January 2022 (text and video)

This is no ordinary spying. Our most intimate selves are now exposed, The Guardian, 27 July 2021

‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity': Arundhati Roy on India's Covid catastrophe, The Guardian, 28 April 2021

“Capitalism has Become a Weapon of Mass Destruction” by Arundhati Roy and Emily Tamkin, ZNet, 11 April 2021

India's Hindu Right Are Willing to Bury Democracy, ZNet, 8 October 2020

Modi's brutal treatment of Kashmir exposes his tactics – and their flaws, The Guardian, 6 August 2020

“Indian racism towards Black people is almost worse than white peoples' racism” An Interview with Arundhati Roy by Dalit Camera, MR Online, 13 June 2020

Arundhati Roy: Indian Muslims facing ‘genocidal climate’ amid pandemic by Daniela Nezzi, openDemocracy, 11 June 2020

Arundhati Roy on Indian Migrant-Worker Oppression and India's Fateful COVID Crisis by J.P. Linstroth, CounterPunch, 29 May 2020

Naomi Klein and Arundhati Roy Help Launch Global Green New Deal Project With Worldwide Invitation by Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams, 20 May 2020

There Is No Writer Quite Like Arundhati Roy by Joel Whitney, Jacobin, 20 May 2020

Our Task is to Disable the Engine, ZNet, 11 May 2020

Mehdi Hasan and Arundhati Roy on India, Narendra Modi, and the Coronavirus, The Intercept, 20 April 2020

Pandemic Is a Portal: Arundhati Roy on COVID -19 in India, Imagining Another World & Fighting for It, Democracy Now! 16 April 2020 (video and transcript)

The pandemic is a portal, ZNet, 5 April 2020

The rise of Modi and the Hindu far right, Information Clearing House, 2 January 2020

Arundhati Roy: It's Hard to Communicate the Scale and the Shape of This Shadow Taking India Over, Democracy Now! 28 November 2019 (video and transcript)

India: Intimations of an Ending, The Nation, 22 November 2019

The Silencing of Kashmir: Arundhati Roy on India, Modi, and Fascism by Arundhati Roy and Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept, 3 Otober 2019

My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy review – powerful, damning essays by Bidisha, The Observer, 16 June 2019

Arundhati Roy on India’s Elections: “A Mockery of What Democracy Is Supposed to Be” by Samuel Earle, The New Republic, 28 May 2019

Literature provides shelter. That's why we need it, The Guardian, 13 May 2019

Arundhati Roy on Why She Admires WikiLeaks & Opposes Assange's Extradition to the U.S. Democracy Now! 13 May 2019 (video and transcript)

Arundhati Roy: Capitalism Is “a Form of Religion” Stopping Solutions to Climate Change & Inequality, Democracy Now! 13 May 2019 (video and transcript)

Basic Goods 'Suspiciously' Begin to Appear in Venezuela Stores

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Basic Goods 'Suspiciously' Begin to Appear in Venezuela Stores

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Arundhati Roy: A U.S. Attack on Iran Would Be “Biggest Mistake It Has Ever Made”, Democracy Now! 12 May 2019 (video and transcript)

Kashmir Is Potentially The Flashpoint For A Future Nuclear War, Common Dreams, 1 March 2019

 

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