Arundhati Roy: We need a government

An appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi: Please step aside.

Arundhati Roy

· May 04, 2021 · 12:36 pm

Arundhati Roy: Our battle for love must be militantly waged – and beautifully won

The text of Arundhati Roy’s speech at the Elgar Parishad 2021 on January 30.

Arundhati Roy

· Jan 30, 2021 · 09:11 pm

Arundhati Roy: Two conspiracies and a cremation

Let’s keep voting for the people who are leading us into penury and war, tearing us apart limb from limb.

Arundhati Roy

· Oct 03, 2020 · 09:00 am

Arundhati Roy: The court can gain respect only through its judgements, not through the contempt law

Full text of the writer’s statement to the Foreign Correspondents’ Club on September 3.

Arundhati Roy

· Sep 04, 2020 · 07:30 am

‘This injustice will not go on forever’: Arundhati Roy writes to her jailed friend GN Saibaba

‘As Covid lays siege to prison after prison, including yours, they know, that given your condition, a life sentence could so easily become a death sentence.’

Arundhati Roy

· Jul 20, 2020 · 07:37 am

Arundhati Roy: Enough of the cheap theatrics. We need brains. We need heart. We need accountability

We can’t all collectively pretend that everything that has happened is completely unforeseen, as this excerpt from ‘Broken Republic’ in 2011 demonstrates.

Arundhati Roy

· May 10, 2020 · 06:30 am

Arundhati Roy on Delhi violence: ‘This is our version of the coronavirus. We are sick’

The author addressed a gathering at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on Sunday.

Arundhati Roy

· Mar 01, 2020 · 03:30 pm

‘So, is there life after democracy?’ Arundhati Roy was asking the question back in 2009

‘My Seditious Heart’ brings together all of Roy’s non-fiction writing over two decades in a single volume.

Arundhati Roy

· Jun 26, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘India is fighting for her soul’: Arundhati Roy on fascism, Modi and being a writer in today’s world

‘In this blitzkrieg of idiocy, fascist marches, fake-news coups, and what looks like a race toward extinction – what is the place of literature?’

Arundhati Roy

· May 18, 2019 · 05:30 pm

May 15, 1936: Ambedkar published ‘Annihilation of Caste’. What was his conflict with Gandhi?

An excerpt from Arundhati Roy’s introduction to a recent edition of ‘The Annihilation of Caste’, now published as ‘The Doctor and the Saint’.

Arundhati Roy

· May 15, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘An illness is upon us’: Arundhati Roy on activist Anand Teltumbde’s impending arrest

‘His impending arrest cannot but be seen as a political act. It will be a shameful and shocking moment in our history.’

Arundhati Roy

· Jan 16, 2019 · 06:50 pm

‘The tide will turn’: Arundhati Roy’s letter to jailed Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam

On PEN International’s ‘Day of the Imprisoned Writer’, Roy says his arrest ‘is an attack not on intellectuals but on intelligence’.

Arundhati Roy

· Nov 15, 2018 · 06:30 am