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Arundhati Roy
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born
in Shillong, Meghalaya, India
November 24, 1961
gender
female
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Arundhati Roy
Wasn’t it? Yesterday I mean. Spring announced itself in Delhi. The sun was out, and the Law took its Course. Just before breakfast, Afzal Guru, prime accused in the 2001 Parliament Attack was secretly hanged, and his body was interred in Tihar Jail. Was he buried next to Maqbool Butt? (The other Kashmiri who was hanged in Tihar in 1984. Kashmiris will mark that anniversary tomorrow... read more »
Wasn’t it? Yesterday I mean. Spring announced itself in Delhi. The sun was out, and the Law took its Course. Just before breakfast, Afzal Guru, prime accused in the 2001 Parliament Attack was secretly hanged, and his body was interred in Tihar Jail. Was he buried next to Maqbool Butt? (The other Kashmiri who was hanged in Tihar in 1984. Kashmiris will mark that anniversary tomorrow... read more »
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The God of Small Things
— published 1997 — 100 editions |
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An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
— published 2003 — 7 editions |
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Power Politics
— published 2000 — 6 editions |
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The Algebra Of Infinite Justice
— published 2001 — 4 editions |
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War Talk
— published 2003 — 2 editions |
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The Cost of Living
— published 1999 — 8 editions |
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Listening to Grasshoppers
— published 2009 — 10 editions |
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Walking With The Comrades
— published 2011 — 4 editions |
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Come September
by Arundhati Roy, Howard Zinn — published 2004 |
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The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy
by Arundhati Roy, David Barsamian — published 2003 — 4 editions |
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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, The Cost of Living
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
“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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