‘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

Arundhati Roy: #Me Too Urban Naxal

‘To be lynched is a crime. To be poor is a crime. To defend the poor is to plot to overthrow the government.’

Arundhati Roy

· Aug 30, 2018 · 08:08 pm

Arundhati Roy on ‘Bill and Melinda Gates’s pillow talk’

‘But seriously – what is one couple doing with that much money’?

Arundhati Roy

· Jul 30, 2016 · 08:30 am

Arundhati Roy: 'Intolerance is the wrong word for the lynching and mass murder of human beings'

The respected author has issued a statement about her decision to return the national film award she won in 1989 for writing the screenplay of 'In which Annie Gives it Those Ones'.

Arundhati Roy

· Nov 05, 2015 · 04:39 pm

Arundhati Roy to Penguin: 'Tell us, please, what is it that scared you so?'

The writer and activist is not pleased with her publisher. The full text of the letter follows below.

Arundhati Roy

· Feb 13, 2014 · 02:20 pm