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Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize and has been translated into more than 40 languages. She also has published several books of nonfiction including The End of Imagination, Capitalism: A Ghost Story and The Doctor and the Saint. She lives in New Delhi.


Approaching Gridlock: Arundhati Roy on Free Speech and Failing Democracy

“There can be no fiction without appropriation. Because we fiction writers are predators too.”
March 24, 2023  By Arundhati Roy
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Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History

“Our hopes have been cauterized, our imaginations infected.”
April 21, 2022  By Arundhati Roy
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Arundhati Roy on Indian Suffering Amid the World’s Most Repressive Lockdown

Narendra Modi is Treating His Citizens Like Hostile Occupying Forces
September 1, 2020  By Arundhati Roy
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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?
February 12, 2020  By Arundhati Roy
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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
July 25, 2018  By Arundhati Roy
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