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Arundhati Roy
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born
November 24, 1961
in Shillong, Meghalaya, India
gender
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Hyderabad: 'Human rights activists should work together in cooperation, not in competition like different sects', said well-known writer and human rights activist Arundhati Roy. She was speaking at a meeting organized by the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) A.P. chapter on the occasion of the 80 death anniversary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh.
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The God of Small Things
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An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
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2003
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Power Politics
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War Talk
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2003
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The Algebra Of Infinite Justice
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2001
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The Cost of Living
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2010
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Listening to Grasshoppers
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2009
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The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy
by Arundhati Roy, David Barsamian 4.09 avg rating — 96 ratings
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2003
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Come September
by Arundhati Roy, Howard Zinn 4.59 avg rating — 81 ratings
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2004
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Public Power in the Age of Empire
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“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy
― Arundhati Roy
“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.
That is their mystery and their magic.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
That is their mystery and their magic.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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