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Znet Article Roy: What Have We Done to Democracy?

Znet Article, September, 28 2009 Arundhati Roy
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Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications.

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Roy: What we need is a feral howl

Znet Article, July, 18 2009 Arundhati Roy
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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.'

Znet Article Roy: Is democracy a hit with humans because it mirrors our myopia?

Znet Article, July, 07 2009 Arundhati Roy
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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...

Znet Article Roy: Binayak Sen

Znet Article, April, 08 2009 Arundhati Roy
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Press Statement by Arundhati Roy Issued at the Raipur Satyagraha for the Release of Dr Binayak Sen

Znet Article Roy: The silence surrounding Sri Lanka

Znet Article, March, 31 2009 Arundhati Roy
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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...

Znet Article Roy: 9 Is Not 11 (And November Isn't September)

Znet Article, December, 14 2008 Arundhati Roy
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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.

Znet Article Roy: Devil's Advocate: Arundhati on media-police collusion

Znet Article, October, 20 2008 Arundhati Roy
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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...

Znet Article Roy: Brave New India

Znet Article, October, 11 2008 Arundhati Roy
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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.

Znet Article Roy: Land And Freedom

Znet Article, August, 23 2008 Arundhati Roy
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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 ...

Znet Article Roy: Taslima Nasrin & "Free Speech"

Znet Article, February, 25 2008 Arundhati Roy
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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...

Znet Article Mouradian: Of Grasshoppers and Men

Znet Article, February, 07 2008 Khatchig Mouradian
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Mouradian interviews Roy on the Armenian Genocide and the genocidal impulse.

Znet Article Roy: Listening To Grasshoppers-Genocide, Denial And Celebration

Znet Article, January, 26 2008 Arundhati Roy
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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...

Znet Article Roy: Scandal In The Palace

Znet Article, September, 26 2007 Arundhati Roy
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Scandals can be fun. Espe...

Znet Article Roy: Breaking the News

Znet Article, December, 20 2006 Arundhati Roy
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Five years ago this week, on December 13, 2001, the Indian parliament was in its winter session. The government was under attack for yet another corruption scandal. At 11.30 in the morning, five armed men in a white Ambassador car fitted out with ...

Znet Article Roy: 'And His Life Should Become Extinct'

Znet Article, October, 29 2006 Arundhati Roy
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We know this much: On December 13, 2001, the Indian Parliament was in its winter session. (The NDA government was under attack for yet another corruption scandal.) At 11.30 in the morning, five armed men in a white Ambassador ...

Znet Article Roy: India and the U.S.

Znet Article, May, 25 2006 Arundhati Roy
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AMY GOODMAN: Today, we spend the hour with acclaimed author and activist Arundhati Roy. Her first novel, The God of Small Things, was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997. It’s sold over six million copies, has been translated in over 20 langu...

Znet Article Roy: A Fury Building Up Across India

Znet Article, April, 29 2006 Arundhati Roy
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In this interview, Arundhati Roy updates her essay on the Narmada issue, The Greater Common Good, published in 1999 in Frontline. It was conducted by Shoma Chaudhuri over a period of several days in person and on email. Chaudhuri: The media has ...

Znet Article Roy: Bush in India: Just Not Welcome

Znet Article, February, 28 2006 Arundhati Roy
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On his triumphalist tour of India and Pakistan, where he hopes to wave imperiously at people he considers potential subjects, President Bush has an itinerary that's getting curiouser and curiouser. For Bush's March 2 pit stop in New Delhi, the In...

Znet Article Roy: Peace?...

Znet Article, November, 07 2004 Arundhati Roy
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It's official now. The Sydney Peace Foundation is neck deep in the business of gambling and calculated risk. Last year, very courageously, it chose Dr Hanan Ashrawi of Palestine for the Sydney Peace Prize. And, as if that were not enough, this yea...

Znet Article Roy: Tide? Or Ivory Snow?

Znet Article, August, 24 2004 Arundhati Roy
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Tide? Or Ivory Snow?

Znet Article Roy: The Road to Harsud

Znet Article, July, 19 2004 Arundhati Roy
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Villages die by night. Quietly. Towns die by day, shrieking as they go. Since Independence...

Znet Article Roy: Indian Elections and Resistance

Znet Article, May, 19 2004 Arundhati Roy
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Indian Elections and Resistance

Znet Article Roy: Darkness Passed....

Znet Article, May, 14 2004 Arundhati Roy
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Let us hope the darkness has passed. India...

Znet Article Roy: How Deep Shall We Dig?

Znet Article, May, 01 2004 Arundhati Roy
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Recently, a young Kashmiri friend was talking to me about life in Kashmir. Of the morass of political venality and opportunism, the callous brutality of the securi...

Znet Article Roy: Do Turkeys Enjoy Thanksgiving?

Znet Article, January, 24 2004 Arundhati Roy
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Last January thousands of us from across the world gathered in Porto Allegre in Brazil and declared reiterated that "Another World is Possible". A few thousand miles north, in Washington, George Bush and his aides were thinking the same thing...

Znet Article Roy: When The Saints Go Marching Out

Znet Article, September, 02 2003 Arundhati Roy
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August 28, 1963 ... forty years later, Martin Lut...

Znet Article Roy: The loneliness of Noam Chomsky

Znet Article, September, 01 2003 Arundhati Roy
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The loneliness of Noam Chomsky

Znet Article Roy: The Day Of The Jackals

Znet Article, June, 02 2003 Arundhati Roy
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Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates. How many children, in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these words? And now the bombs have fallen, incinerating and humil...

Znet Article Roy: Arundhati Roy on Empire and the Corporate Media

Znet Article, May, 31 2003 Arundhati Roy
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Arundhati Roy is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize. It has sold six million copies and has been translated into over 20 languages worldwide. She has also written three non-fiction books: ...

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