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
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'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 |
The Guardian, 15 December 2006 |
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Outlook India, 29 October 2006 |
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The Guardian, 3 July 2006 |
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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 |
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The Hindu, 4 April 2006 |
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The Nation, 28 February 2006 |
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Booker author's snub shakes Indian elite by Aditi Tandon and Katy Guest |
Independent on Sunday, 22 January 2006 |
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Deccan Herald, 16 January 2006 |
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Indo-Asian News Service, 13 June 2005 |
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ZNet, 24 August 2004 |
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The Guardian, 14 May 2004 |
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The Nation, 22 January 2004 |
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ZNet, 2 September 2003 |
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ZNet, 1 September 2003 |
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ZNet, 2 June 2003 |
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ZNet, 20 May 2003 |
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The Outline Of the Beast An Interview |
Socialist Worker, 8 April 2003 |
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The Guardian, 2 April 2003 |