Tag: Arundhati Roy
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Bihar shows the way: Arundhati on political churning
Talking to The Statesman in an exclusive interview, the Booker prize winner said: “There is an urgent need for all the like-minded political parties to be united to defeat the fascist forces.”
February 17, 2023 -
TN varsity removes Roy’s book after ABVP protest
ABVP alleges book encourages armed revolutions of Maoists against the nation
November 13, 2020 -
Women suffer most in National Register of Citizens-like exercises: Arundhati Roy
The author was addressing a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and NRC at Shahid Smarak in Jaipur.
February 21, 2020 -
Police complaint against Arundhati Roy for her DU speech ‘urging people to lie’ during census
Raking up a fear psychosis among citizens, Roy had told the crowd that the NPR would serve as a database for the NRC.
December 27, 2019 -
‘Arundhati Roy idolises criminals like Ranga-Billa’: Uma Bharti hits out, Congress joins
'I am ashamed that I have to take the name of such woman who idolises people like Ranga and Billa,' Uma Bharti said.
December 26, 2019 -
From Arundhati Roy to Ramachandra Guha, authors speak up on CAA
Amidst protests across the country, writer-activist Arundhati Roy compared the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) with the "1935 Nuremberg Laws of the Third Reich" and appealed to people to "stand up".
December 19, 2019 -
A debate of past politics
A new book recounts how Ambedkar was that adversary who dared to challenge Gandhi politically, intellectually and morally as well. A review by Alen Paul.
July 6, 2019 -
After filmmakers’ call to oust BJP, now 200 writers appeal to ‘vote out hate politics’
The statement has been signed by over 200 writers from across India with names such as Arundhati Roy, Amitav Ghosh, Jerry Pinto, Romila Thapar and Girish Karnad as part of it.
April 2, 2019 -
Bridging the divide
Arundhati Roy, who had taken the literary world by storm with the publication of her quasi-autobiographical book, The God of Small Things, in 1997 which went on to win The Booker Prize, made her readers wait for twenty long years. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, published in 2017, isn’t a sequel. Far from it. Years...
December 31, 2017 -
Arundhati, Tharoor to grace Penguin Fever
Leading publisher Penguin Random House India has announced that literary heavyweights, including the Booker winning author Arundhati Roy and writer-politician Shashi Tharoor, will be participating in a special edition of the annual Spring Penguin Fever it organises. The publisher is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and the special edition of the Spring Fever is titled...
October 7, 2017 -
Pakistan invokes Arundhati Roy to attack Sushma Swaraj’s UN speech
Pakistan has invoked acclaimed Indian novelist Arundhati Roy to attack External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s UN General Assembly speech where she denounced Islamabad as the “world’s greatest exporter of havoc, death and inhumanity”. “Much of what is in the air in India now is pure terror, in Kashmir, in other places,” Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Maleeha...
September 24, 2017 -
Fiction has to be constructed carefully, without urgency: Arundhati Roy
Just when the credentials of Booker winning author Arundhati Roy as a fiction writer were being questioned in literary circles, the acclaimed novelist, after a hiatus of two decades, returned with her second novel and, boom — it is again long-listed for the much-coveted award. The author, however, feels there’s a world of difference between...
August 30, 2017 -
Neck and neck race for Man Booker
While Arundhati Roys comeback novel has once again made the cut for the just announced Man Booker Prize longlist, the other books that are running for the 50,000 pound award make it one of the most diverse lists in the race for a literary award in the recent years. Roy's comeback novel "The Ministry of...
August 2, 2017 -
Arundhati Roy’s ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ in 2017 Man Booker longlist
Arundhati Roy's latest work of fiction, “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”, has made it to the longlist of this year's Man Booker Prize. The book came after a 19-year-long hiatus since the author's debut novel “God of Small Things”, that won the Booker Prize in 1997. Roy is joined by four previously shortlisted writers —...
July 27, 2017 -
What matters more: Writer or manuscript?
Keen observers of contemporary Indian literature would agree that most recent books have depended heavily on promotions and marketing. But if publicity rules the roost, does the manuscript get its due? It is no surprise that a handful of successful authors have come to dominate the literary scene in India, but there has been no...
July 6, 2017 -
SC stays criminal contempt proceedings against Arundhati Roy
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the criminal contempt proceedings against author and activist Arundhati Roy. The case was being heard by the Nagpur bench of the high court. According to reports, on December 24, 2015, the Bombay High Court had issued a contempt criminal notice against Roy for criticising its decision to reject former...
July 3, 2017 -
A reminiscence of things that be
Over the years vultures, the true custodians of death, stopped flapping their wings as the country feasted more on “ice cream, butterscotch crunch, nutty buddy, chocolate chips and more mango milkshake”, stirring up the putrid time inside, thereby ensuring cows had a sanctum sanctorum, that this country was gradually to become. “At an ostensibly magic...
June 24, 2017