The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class – they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.
Things can change in a day. - Arundhati Roy
Things can change in a day.
- Arundhati Roy
To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We t… - Arundhati Roy
To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We t…
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments u… - Arundhati Roy
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments u…
What's a country? It's just an administrative unit, a glorified municipality. Why do we imbue it with esoteric meaning and protect it with nuclear bo… - Arundhati Roy
What's a country? It's just an administrative unit, a glorified municipality. Why do we imbue it with esoteric meaning and protect it with nuclear bo…
It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked … - Arundhati Roy
It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked …
What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? What sort of dreams were … - Arundhati Roy
What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? What sort of dreams were …
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less. - Arundhati Roy
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speak… - Arundhati Roy
The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speak…
The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison. - Arundhati Roy
The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison.
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