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

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

 

 

Beware the ‘Gush-Up Gospel' Behind India's Billionaires, ZNet, 18 January 2012

Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution' by Arun Gupta, The Guardian, 30 November 2011

We Are All Occupiers, CommonDreams.org, 18 November 2011

Arundhati Roy: Occupy Wall Street is "So Important Because It is in the Heart of Empire", Democracy Now! 15 November 2011

Into the Woods by Arundhati Roy and Parul Sehgal, ZNet, 3 October 2011

The dead begin to speak up in India, The Guardian/Comment is free, 30 September 2011

Facing Down Tanks, ZNet, 1 September 2011

Jan Lokpal Bill is very regressive: Arundhati Roy by Sagarika Ghose, IBN Live, 31 August 2011

Roy attacks anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare by Jonathan Harwood, The First Post, 23 August 2011

Arundhati Roy — “Every day, one is insulted in India” by Sophie Elmhirst, New Statesman, 21 July 2011

Arundhati Roy: 'They are trying to keep me destabilised. Anybody who says anything is in danger' by Stephen Moss, The Guardian, 5 June 2011

Arundhati Roy by Amy Kazmin, FT Magazine, 3 June 2011

Revolts & Rebellions by Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian, ZNet, 17 May 2011

PalFest Message, ZNet, 16 April 2011

Arundhati Roy by Homa Khaleeli, The Guardian, 8 March 2011

The Un-Victim: Amitava Kumar interviews Arundhati Roy, Guernica, February 2011

Arundhati Roy: India's bold and brilliant daughter by Ian Jack, The Guardian, 29 January 2011

Chomsky, Arundhati, lead protest to writers meet in Galle, TamilNet, 19 January 2011

The trial of Binayak Sen, ZNet, 30 December 2010

They can file a charge posthumously against Jawaharlal Nehru too, ZNet, 30 November 2010

Kashmir's Fruits of Discord, ZNet, 10 November 2010

Acclaimed Indian Author Arundhati Roy on Obama's Wars, Poverty and India's Maoist Rebels, Democracy Now! 8 November 2010

Who are India's real traitors? by Indra Sinha, The Guardian/Comment is free, 4 November 2010

Statement on Media and Mobs, ZNet, 1 November 2010

Tehelka Interview, ZNet, 30 October 2010

Arundhati Roy and Kashmir's struggle for justice by Murtaza Shibli, The Guardian/Comment is free, 28 October 2010

Arundhati Roy: The debater of big things, Editorial, The Guardian, 28 October 2010

Acclaimed Indian Author Arundhati Roy Faces Arrest for Questioning India's Claim on Kashmir, Democracy Now! 27 October 2010

I Pity The Nation That Needs To Jail Those Who Ask For Justice, ZNet, 27 October 2010

They can't buy her silence by Tariq Ali, London Review of Books Blog, 26 October 2010

Arundhati Roy faces arrest over Kashmir remark by Gethin Chamberlain, The Guardian, 26 October 2010

India in crisis, New Statesman, 11 September 2010

Operation Green Hunt's Urban Avatar, Countercurrents.org, 14 June 2010

India's War on People at Home by Gautam Navlakha and Arundhati Roy, MR Zine, 4 June 2010

Our Choice: Insulated Nationalism or Arundhati Roy? by Shah Alam Khan, Countercurrents.org, 14 May 2010

Arundhati Roy: The Indian Author and Political Activist Joins Avi Lewis on Fault Lines, Al Jazeera, 9 May 2010

Maoists Being Forced Into Violence: Arundhati Roy Interviewed By Sagarika Ghose, IBN Politics, 14 April 2010

Arundhati Roy: Pulp Fiction Or A Concrete Analysis? by P.A. Sebastian, Countercurrents.org, 13 April 2010

Walking With The Comrades, Outlook India, 22 March 2010

Why Democracy Is “The Biggest Scam in the World” An Interview With Arundhati Roy, Democracy Now! 22 March 2010

Indian writer Arundhati Roy ready for Maoist talks role by Rajesh Joshi, BBC News, 6 March 2010

Arundhati Roy Disturbs Democratic Daydreaming by Trond Øverland, The Palestine Chronicle, 6 December 2009

The heart of India is under attack, The Guardian, 30 October 2009

Aut at Have We Done to Democracy?, TomDispatch.com, 27 September 2009

A Letter to The Economist, 25 August 2009

Business as usual: Vedanta mine plans threaten India's poorest, The Guardian, 27 July 2009

Into the inferno, New Statesman, 16 July 2009

Binayak Sen, ZNet, 9 April 2009

The silence surrounding Sri Lanka, ZNet, 1 April 2009

9 Is Not 11: (And November Isn't September), Outlook India, 13 December 2008

Land and freedom, The Guardian, 22 August 2008

 

Scandal In The Palace

Outlook India, 26 September 2007

'It's outright war and both sides are choosing their weapons' Arundhati Roy in conversation with Shoma Chaudhury

Tehelka, 25 March 2007

Live to tell by Randeep Ramesh

The Guardian, 17 February 2007

India's shame

The Guardian, 15 December 2006

'And His Life Should Become Extinct'

Outlook India, 29 October 2006

War crimes and Lebanon

The Guardian, 3 July 2006

Arundhati Roy on India, Iraq, U.S. Empire and Dissent by Amy Goodman

Democracy Now! 23 May 2006

Confronting Empire, Passionately by Fakrul Alam

The Daily Star, 13 May 2006

A Fury Building Up Across India Arundhati Roy interviewed by Shoma Chaudhuri

The Hindu, 29 April 2006

Non-violent struggles are being ignored, says Arundhati Roy

The Hindu, 4 April 2006

Bush in India: Just Not Welcome

The Nation, 28 February 2006

Booker author's snub shakes Indian elite by Aditi Tandon and Katy Guest

Independent on Sunday, 22 January 2006

Sahitya Akademi Award: Arundhati Roy Rejects Honor

Deccan Herald, 16 January 2006

Arundhati Roy Fights America Again in New Book

Indo-Asian News Service, 13 June 2005

Tide? Or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire

ZNet, 24 August 2004

Let us hope the darkness has passed

The Guardian, 14 May 2004

The New American Century

The Nation, 22 January 2004

When The Saints Go Marching Out

ZNet, 2 September 2003

The loneliness of Noam Chomsky

ZNet, 1 September 2003

The Day Of The Jackals

ZNet, 2 June 2003

Buy One, Get One Free

ZNet, 20 May 2003

The Outline Of the Beast An Interview

Socialist Worker, 8 April 2003

Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates

The Guardian, 2 April 2003

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