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Twenty years ago, Arundhati Roy wrote her Booker Prize–winning novel The God of Small Things, which went on to become one of the best loved books of our time. June 2017 will see Roy’s return to fiction with her new novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. ‘How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything.’ In a city graveyard a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet between two graves- ...
In 1988, Arundhati Roy wrote the story and screenplay for In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones, a low-budget production produced and directed by Pradip Krishen. The film had almost no big names, and was shown just once on national television in a late-night slot, when few people saw it. Despite this it acquired near cult status, especially among young English-speaking urban Indians. Set in a not-so-fictional school of Architecture in the year 1974, it is the story ...
A few weeks after India detonated a thermonuclear device in 1998, Arundhati Roy wrote The End of Imagination in which she said, ‘My world has died. And I write to mourn its passing.’ Published simultaneously by outlook and frontline magazines, the essay attracted worldwide attention as the voice of a brilliant Indian writer speaking out with clarity and conscience against nuclear weapons. Over the next three years, she wrote a series of political essays on a ...
When India detonated a thermonucleaer device in May 1998, Arundhati Roy wrote ‘The End of Imagination’. Since then she has written with clarity, precision and insight about a range of subjects of the utmost importance. This second volume of her collected non-fiction writing brings together fourteen essays written between June 2002 and November 2004. In these essays Arundhati Roy draws the thread of empire through seemingly unconnected arenas, uncovering the ...
The Shape of the Beast is our world laid bare, with great courage, passion and eloquence, by a mind that has engaged unhesitatingly with its changing realities, often anticipating the way things have moved in the last decade. In the fourteen interviews collected here, conducted between January 2001 and March 2008, Arundhati Roy examines the nature of state and corporate power as it has emerged during this period, and the shape that resistance movements are ...