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- Saturday, Oct 31, 2009
ZNet Article To justify enforcing a corporate land grab, the state needs an enemy – and it has chosen the Maoists -
- Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009
ZNet Article Author Arundhati Roy on the Human Costs of India’s Economic Growth, the View of Obama from New Delhi, and Escalating US Attacks in Af-Pak -
- Monday, Sep 28, 2009
ZNet Article Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications. -
- Thursday, Sep 10, 2009
ZNet Article 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 reporting and incorrect analysis" the reviewer makes some extraordinary errors and leaps of logic... -
- Saturday, Jul 18, 2009
ZNet Article 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.' -
- Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009
ZNet Article 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 working model: Western liberal democracy, and its variants, such as they are. -
- Wednesday, Apr 08, 2009
ZNet Article Press Statement by Arundhati Roy Issued at the Raipur Satyagraha for the Release of Dr Binayak Sen -
- Tuesday, Mar 31, 2009
ZNet Article 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 genocide. According to a United Nations estimate, several thousand people have already been killed. Thousands more are critically wounded. -
- Sunday, Dec 14, 2008
ZNet Article 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. -
- Monday, Oct 20, 2008
ZNet Article 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 questions of a story that is told to us that is full of holes? -
- Saturday, Oct 11, 2008
ZNet Article 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. -
- Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008
Audio 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. -
- Saturday, Aug 23, 2008
ZNet Article 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 the most densely militarised zone in the world. -
- Monday, Feb 25, 2008
ZNet Article 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 that view. On her website, she says: "Humankind is facing an uncertain future.” In particular, the conflict is between two different ideas, secularism and fundamentalism.” To me, this conflict is basically between modern, rational, logical thinking and irrational, blind faith. It is a conflict between the future and the past, between innovation and tradition, between those who value freedom and those who do not." -
- Thursday, Feb 07, 2008
ZNet Article Mouradian interviews Roy on the Armenian Genocide and the genocidal impulse. -
- Saturday, Jan 26, 2008
ZNet Article 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 hundred thousand people who walked with his coffin in dead silence through the wintry streets of this city, with banners saying, "We are all Armenians", "We are all Hrant Dink". -
- Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007
Video Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian at Seattle Town Hall. Video 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 of the crimes committed by the United States and its "Coalition of the Willing" partners in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Iraqi witnesses and experts in international law, human rights, science, culture and history testified for three days before an international "Jury of Conscience" that included Arundhati Roy (India), Eve Ensler (U.S), Chandra Muzaffar (Malaysia), Dumisa Nsebeza (South Africa), Francois Houtart (Belgium), and Taty Almeida (Argentina). Video Arundhati Roy speaks about the Israeli / Palestinian conflict in the middle east. Historic references, who funds it, and more. -
- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
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- Wednesday, Sep 26, 2007
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- Wednesday, Dec 20, 2006
ZNet Article 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 a... - All Most Recent Content
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- Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007
Video Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian at Seattle Town Hall. Video 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 of the crimes committed by the United States and its "Coalition of the Willing" partners in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Iraqi witnesses and experts in international law, human rights, science, culture and history testified for three days before an international "Jury of Conscience" that included Arundhati Roy (India), Eve Ensler (U.S), Chandra Muzaffar (Malaysia), Dumisa Nsebeza (South Africa), Francois Houtart (Belgium), and Taty Almeida (Argentina). Video Arundhati Roy speaks about the Israeli / Palestinian conflict in the middle east. Historic references, who funds it, and more. - All Recent Video
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Arundhati Roy's Bio Info: Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an In... moreArundhati Roy (born November 24, 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 to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father, a tea planter by profession. She spent her childhood in Aymanam, in Kerala, schooling in Corpus Christi. She left Kerala for Delhi at age 16, and embarked on a homeless lifestyle, staying in a small hut with a tin roof within the walls of Delhi\'s Feroz Shah Kotla and making a living selling empty bottles. She then proceeded to study architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture, where she met her first husband, the architect Gerard Da Cunha.
The God of Small Things is the only novel written by Roy. 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.
In response to India\'s testing of nuclear weapons in Pokhran, Rajasthan, Roy wrote The End of Imagination, a critique of the Indian government\'s nuclear policies. It was published in her collection The Cost of Living, in which she also crusaded against India\'s massive hydroelectric dam projects in the central and western states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. She has since devoted herself solely to nonfiction and politics, publishing two more collections of essays as well as working for social causes.
Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in May 2004 for her work in social campaigns and advocacy of non-violence.
In June 2005 she took part in the World Tribunal on Iraq. In January 2006 she was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award for her collection of essays, \'The Algebra of Infinite Justice\', but declined to accept it.
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