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1 day ago · Arundhati Roy, the internationally celebrated author and human rights activist, has once again proven herself to be a model culture worker. On receiving the PEN Foundation’s annually given Pinter Prize last week, Roy announced that she’d be donating her prize money to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund .
Oct 19, 2016 · Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things. Roy’s novel was published 1996, quickly became a best-seller, and won the prestigious Booker Prize in October, 1997. Roy often denies in interviews that she has been influenced by Salman Rushdie, but it is difficult to see how she could have avoided his influence, pervasive among younger South Asian writers.
- Roy Believes Writers Must Be Political and Challenge Unjust Power
- Roy’s Latest Novel Tackles Anti-Muslim Violence and The Kashmir Conflict
- Roy Believes That Non-Violence ‘Can Be A Kind of Violence’
- Roy Opposes Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
- Roy Is Against The Free Market and Suspicious of Corporate Sponsorship
- Roy Supports Militant Groups Many Consider Terrorists
- Roy Believes The Wilderness Should Not Be Privatized
- Roy Believes ‘Fascists’ Want Artificial Intelligence to Take Over The World
- Roy Fears Censorship by The Mob
Roy strongly opposes Narendra Modi’s nationalist government in India and considers the country to be sliding into what she terms “micro-fascism.” She has stated in interviews that writers should not be satisfied to just sell a product, they must speak outfor their beliefs and stand up for them even when it’s extremely unpopular. Roy’s stance agains...
Roy’s latest fiction novel took her twenty years to write and was released in 2017. It is called the Ministry of Utmost Happiness and explores issues around gender, inequality, militarism and prejudice in modern India. It only increased the controversy surrounding Roy since it gets at a lot of the problems and injustices occurring in Indian society...
Anyone who may think Roy is just continuing in the tradition of civil rights leaders like Indian independence icon Mahatma Gandhi should think again. While Westerners may be familiar with the positive image of Gandhi promoted ceaselessly in Western curricula and media they may be less familiar with his deeply-held anti-Black racist beliefsand outra...
Roy believes that India’s nuclear program has coincided with a rise in intolerance, extreme nationalism, and militarism. She points to the 1998 nuclear tests in particular as a breaking point. In fact, Roy broke ranks with the role that had been prepared for her when she wrote her essay “the End of Imagination” at the time of the tests, denouncing ...
Roy considers global capitalism to be a smokescreen for corporate greed and imperialism. She is against the free market broadly speaking and considers even outwardly philanthropic and cooperative projects such as development-oriented foundations with corporate ties to be engaging in crypto-colonialism. Roy shares many of the economic views of lefti...
In her 2010 essay “Walking with the Comrades,” Roy spent quite some time with Maoist guerillas in India. Her essay is somewhat nuanced but more or less sympathizes with this group and expresses her belief that judging them as evil or malicious is simplistic and incorrect. It provoked a firestorm of controversy, as has Roy’s ongoing defense of Kashm...
Roy has been strongly opposed to the privatization and economic extraction of resources from India’s woodlands and wetlands. She ties the exploitation of resources and invitation of multinational companies into India to the problems faced by working people and ethnic and sexual minorities, viewing the world in an intersectional way. Essentially, in...
Roy is not a fan of Artificial Intelligence, or at least of those who control it. In fact, she believes that it might eventually wipe out most human beings. As Roy has said: Expanding on this, Roy explains that AI combined with a heartless view of humanity could result in a worldwide genocide:
Roy considers the 2014 election of the conservative Narendra Modi to be a “tragedy”and believes that his followers and supporters of India’s right-wing, Hindu nationalist BJP party (Bharatiya Janata Party) are dangerously deluded. Modi was reelected in a landslide in 2017 and is enormously popular in India. Roy charges that censorship is occurring ...
Mar 5, 2014 · Roy’s essay on the film, “The Great Indian Rape Trick,” published in the now-defunct Sunday magazine, eviscerated the makers of “Bandit Queen,” pointing out that they never even bothered...
Jul 21, 2024 · She had never had a dual identity. Even in her early fiction, her penchant for telling the truth or “taking up cudgels” for others had been there, albeit camouflaged in literary flourishes. Her prose was powerful precisely because of that―an ability to see beyond herself.
Aug 22, 2024 · Arundhati Roy’s 1997 novel was a groundbreaking bestseller that solidified her as an important voice on the global stage. Here’s what you should know.
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Jun 6, 2017 · Two decades ago, Arundhati Roy released her first novel, The God of Small Things. The response was pretty much everything an author could hope for from a debut.
