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Roy: A Letter To 'The Economist'
Znet Article, September, 10 2009
Arundhati Roy
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Dear Sir, This is with regard to the review of my book Listening to Grasshoppers that appeared in The Economist. If this letter is long, ironically it is because the factual errors in the review are so many. In an attempt to highlight my "flawed r...
Roy: What we need is a feral howl
Znet Article, July, 18 2009
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Roy says: 'I walk a very thin line between retaining my space as a writer and people expecting me to be some 'leader', which I simply am not.'
Roy: Is democracy a hit with humans because it mirrors our myopia?
Znet Article, July, 07 2009
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
While we're still arguing about whether there's life after death, can we add another question to the cart? Is there life after democracy? What sort of life will it be? By democracy I don't mean democracy as an ideal or an aspiration. I mean the wo...
Roy: Binayak Sen
Znet Article, April, 08 2009
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Press Statement by Arundhati Roy Issued at the Raipur Satyagraha for the Release of Dr Binayak Sen
Roy: The silence surrounding Sri Lanka
Znet Article, March, 31 2009
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Given the government's stated objective of "wiping out" the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelan, this malevolent collapse of civilians and "terrorists" does seem to signal that the government is on the verge of committing what could end up being geno...
Roy: 9 Is Not 11 (And November Isn't September)
Znet Article, December, 14 2008
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
The Mumbai attacks have been dubbed 'India's 9/11', and there are calls for a 9/11-style response, including an attack on Pakistan. Instead, the country must fight terrorism with justice, or face civil war.
Roy: Devil's Advocate: Arundhati on media-police collusion
Znet Article, October, 20 2008
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Millions of Indians do not trust the police. Is our choice not to question them because here we are talking about the communal profiling of a hundred and fifty million people, demoralising them, radicalising a whole generation and asking serious q...
Roy: Brave New India
Znet Article, October, 11 2008
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
The myth about the U.S. being a beacon of liberty has been more or less discredited amongst people who are even vaguely informed. India, on the other hand, has managed to pull off almost a miraculous public relations coup.
Roy: Kashmir Interview
Audio, September, 17 2008
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Author and activist Arundhati Roy has visited Kashmir several times in the past two months. She says she has never seen anything like the non-violent mass movement that is filling the streets of Srinagar.
Roy: Land And Freedom
Znet Article, August, 23 2008
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
For the past 60 days or so, since about the end of June, the people of Kashmir have been free. Free in the most profound sense. They have shrugged off the terror of living their lives in the gun-sights of half a million heavily armed soldiers, in ...
Roy: Taslima Nasrin & "Free Speech"
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
I would like to caution us all against looking at this issue, in particular the issue of Taslima Nasrin, through the single lens of a battle between religious fundamentalism and secular liberalism. Taslima Nasrin herself sometimes contributes to t...
Mouradian: Of Grasshoppers and Men
Znet Article, February, 07 2008
Khatchig Mouradian
Mouradian's ZSpace page
Mouradian interviews Roy on the Armenian Genocide and the genocidal impulse.
Roy: Listening To Grasshoppers-Genocide, Denial And Celebration
Znet Article, January, 26 2008
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
I never met Hrant Dink, a misfortune that will be mine for time to come. From what I know of him, of what he wrote, what he said and did, how he lived his life, I know that had I been here in Istanbul a year ago I would have been among the one hun...
Roy: Palestinian / Israeli Conflict
Video, October, 23 2007
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Arundhati Roy speaks about the Israeli / Palestinian conflict in the middle east. Historic references, who funds it, and more.
Roy: World Tribunal on Iraq
Video, October, 23 2007
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist, writer and activist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel, The God of Small Things, and, in 2002, the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize. The World Tribunal on Iraq DVD set is an invaluable record o...
Roy: Seattle Town Hall
Video, October, 23 2007
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian at Seattle Town Hall.
