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Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian architect, author, screenwriter, and political activist known for her work on human rights and the environment. Her writing focuses on social justice, democracy, power, and capitalism. In 1997, she became the first Indian woman to win the Booker prize.

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Not Again

Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us.

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Arundhati Roy on Carrying the Inquiry Through Different Art Forms

Our guest in this episode is the award-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy, author of Azadi. She talks about fathers, fascism, beauty, love, and the search for words. Talking to Roy is the critically acclaimed British-Somali author Nadifa Mohamed

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Arundhati Roy: ‘The Point of the Writer Is to Be Unpopular’

Arundhati Roy does not believe in rushing things. With her novels, she prefers to wait for her characters to introduce themselves to her, and slowly develop a trust and a friendship with them. Sometimes, however, external events force her hand.

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Arundhati Roy: Why Happiness Is a Radical Act

Arundhati Roy materialises in the hotel lobby where I’m waiting for her: petite, smiling, beautiful, with high, round cheeks, huge brown eyes and a graduated bob of silvery curls that dance over her forehead and into her eyelashes.

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Arundhati Roy: ‘The Pandemic Is a Portal’

Who can use the term “gone viral” now without shuddering a little? Who can look at anything any more — a door handle, a cardboard carton, a bag of vegetables — without imagining it swarming with those unseeable, undead, unliving blobs dotted with suction pads waiting to fasten themselves on to...

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Arundhati Roy, the Not-So-Reluctant Renegade

“I’ve always been slightly short with people who say, ‘You haven’t written anything again,’ as if all the nonfiction I’ve written is not writing,” Arundhati Roy said.

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The Silence Is the Loudest Sound

As India celebrates her 73rd year of independence from British rule, ragged children thread their way through traffic in Delhi, selling outsized national flags and souvenirs that say, “Mera Bharat Mahan.” My India is Great.

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What Have We Done to Democracy

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?

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Capitalism: a Ghost Story

Is it a house or a home? A temple to the new India, or a warehouse for its ghosts? Ever since Antilla arrived on Altamount Road in Mumbai, exuding mystery and quiet menace, things have not been the same. “Here we are,” the friend who took me there said “Pay your respects to our new Ruler.”

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Arundhati Roy Interviewed

We're talking to Arundhati Roy, speaking to us from Delhi. She recently wrote a piece in The Guardian of Britain, ³Let Us Hope that the Darkness has Passed and the Veil of the Virtual Worlds has Collided in a Humiliation of Power.

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