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Arundhati Roy
Approaching Gridlock: Arundhati Roy on Free Speech and Failing Democracy
“There can be no fiction without appropriation. Because we fiction writers are predators too.”
By
Arundhati Roy
| March 24, 2023
Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History
“Our hopes have been cauterized, our imaginations infected.”
By
Arundhati Roy
| April 21, 2022
Arundhati Roy on Indian Suffering Amid the World's Most Repressive Lockdown
Narendra Modi is Treating His Citizens Like Hostile Occupying Forces
By
Arundhati Roy
| September 1, 2020
The Graveyard Talks Back:
Arundhati Roy on Fiction in the Time of Fake News
What is the Role of the Writer in a Time of Rising Nationalism?
By
Arundhati Roy
| February 12, 2020
What is the Morally Appropriate Language in Which to Think and Write?
Arundhati Roy on the Complex, Shifting Politics of Language and Translation in India
By
Arundhati Roy
| July 25, 2018
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