Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy
Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author who is best known for her novel The God of Small Things, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. This novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 November 1961
CountryIndia
punishment cupboards
Some things come with their own punishments.
business war hegemony
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.
people come-up crisis
The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution
horse trojans used
NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.
beautiful writing world
Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.
inspirational motivational feminist
There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
motivational faith optimistic
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
running people abuse
Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever.
jobs real salary
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.
dream country fighting
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to corporatize the crops we grow, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the dreams we dream, corporate globalization needs an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritarian governments in poorer countries to push through unpopular reforms and quell the mutinies. Corporate Globalization-or shall we call it by its name?-Imperialism-needs a press that pretends to be free. It needs courts that pretend to dispense justice.
acceptance spells
Acceptance spells death to a writer.
world poverty colonialism
Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?
life romantic lost-love
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
fighting giving empathy
Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.