Search Results for: Arundhati Roy

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The Keepers Of Our Past & The Guides To Our Future (By Arundhati Roy)

“The day capitalism is forced to tolerate non-capitalist societies in its midst and to acknowledge limits in its quest for domination, the day it is forced to recognize that its supply of raw material will not be endless, is the day when change will come. If there is any hope for the world at all, […]

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“Algebra of Infinite Justice” by Arundhati Roy

 “The Algebra Of Infinite Justice” BY ARUNDHATI ROY Published in October 08, 2001 In the aftermath of the unconscionable September 11 suicide attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, an American newscaster said: “Good and Evil rarely manifest themselves as clearly as they did last Tuesday. People who we don’t know, massacred people […]

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WE – A film featuring the words of Arundhati Roy

We is a fast-paced 64 minute documentary that covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation. It visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous Come September speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest. It’s witty, moving, alarming […]

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“Beyond Burkas and Botox: The Struggles of Feminism Nowadays” by Arundhati Roy in “Capitalism: A Ghost Story” (2014, Haymarket Books, Chicago)

Why do most “official” feminists and women’s organizations in India keep a safe distance between themselves and organizations like the 90.000-member Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sanghatan (Revolutionary Adivasi Women’s Association) that is fighting patriarchy in its own communities and displacement by mining corporations in the Dandakaranya forest? Why is it that the dispossession and eviction of […]

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IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY: BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE (BY ARUNDHATI ROY, NEW YORK CITY, 2003)

Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy (Buy One, Get One Free) by Arundhati Roy https://vimeo.com/97881169 Presented in New York City at The Riverside Church May 13, 2003 Sponsored by the Center for Economic and Social Rights Also published by Outlook India In these times, when we have to race to keep abreast of the speed at which our […]

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In Praise of Arundhati Roy’s “The God of Small Things” – by Eduardo Carli de Moraes

“She is one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time. I was thinking about what makes her a really great writer, a really great person, and a really great rebel: someone who listens more than she talks. Someone who goes to find where the silence is, and tries to understand why the silence is […]

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THE EARTH WOMAN (from “The God Of Small Things”, by Arundhati Roy)

THE EARTH WOMAN Arundhati Roy (1961 – ) “We belong nowhere”, Chako said. “We sail unanchored on troubled seas. We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad enough. Our joys never happy enough. Our dreams never big enough. Our lives never important enough. To matter.” Then, to give the twins Estha […]

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Excellent interview with Arundhati Roy about the reality in India (@ Al Jazeera)

In 1997, Arundhati Roy’s first novel “The God of Small Things” made her the first Indian woman to win the prestigious Booker Prize. More than six million copies of the book were sold worldwide. Since then, she has turned her pen to politics. During the Bush years, she was a fierce critic, calling the invasion […]

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American Psychos! The Iraq War according to Arundathi Roy (Watch Democracy Now’s interview by Amy Goodman)

In my humble opinion, she’s one of the greatest writers among the living. Her first novel, Booker Prize winner The God of Small Things, has been widely acclaimed as a masterpiece of contemporary literature. Besides having proved her mastery in fiction, Arundathi Roy is also a terrific non-fiction essayist, an extremely powerful investigative journalist, providing us, their bewildered readers, […]

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What I learned from Noam Chomsky: Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush are both Terrorists! (by Arundathi Roy)

“The one fact that shocked me was that Noam Chomsky had searched mainstream U.S. media for 22 years for a single reference to American aggression in South Vietnam, and had found none. (…) I’m still taken aback at the extent of indoctrination and propaganda in the United States. It is as if people there are […]

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