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

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

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

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

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

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

- Arundhati Roy

The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison.

- 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…

- Arundhati Roy