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Znet Article Roy: Come September

Znet Article, September, 29 2002 Arundhati Roy
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Howard Zinn: Well, thank you. [Applause]. This is a very nice crowd. [Laughter] Thank you Patrick Lannan for that introduction. I almost recognized myself. [Laughter] I'm here to introduce Arundhati Roy. I say this in hushed tones. Really, I never...

Znet Article Roy: Print Excerpt / Lannan Speech

Znet Article, September, 29 2002 Arundhati Roy
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Recently, those who have criticised the actions of the US government (myself included) have been called "anti-American". Anti-Americanism is in the process of being consecrated into an ideology. The term is usually used by the American establishme...

Znet Article Roy: Ahimsa

Znet Article, June, 12 2002 Arundhati Roy
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While the rest of us are mesmerised by talk of war and terrorism and wars against terror, (can you go to war against a feeling?) in Madhya Pradesh a little life-raft has set sail into the wind. On a pavement in Bhopal, in an area called 'Tin Shed'...

Znet Article Roy: Democracy

Znet Article, April, 28 2002 Arundhati Roy
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Last night a friend from Baroda called. Weeping. It took her fifteen minutes to tell me what the matter was. It wasn't very complicated. Only that Sayeeda, a friend of hers, had been caught by a mob. Only that her stomach had been ripped open and ...

Znet Article Roy: Arundhati Roy's Statement

Znet Article, March, 08 2002 Arundhati Roy
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I stand by what I have said in my Affidavit and I have served the sentence which the Supreme Court imposed on me. Anybody who thinks that the punishment for my supposed Å'crime¹ was a symbolic one day in prison and a fine of two thousand rupees, i...

Znet Article Roy: Shall We Leave It To The Experts

Znet Article, February, 12 2002 Arundhati Roy
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India lives in several centuries at the same time. Somehow we manage to progress and regress simultaneously. As a nation we age by pushing outward from the middle--adding a few centuries on either end of the extraordinary CV. We greaten like the m...

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