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Arundhati Roy

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Arundhati Roy was born in 1959 in Shillong, India. She studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives, and has worked as a film designer, actor, and screenplay writer in India. Her latest book, Listening to Grasshoppers: Fields Notes on Democracy, is a collection of recent essays. A tenth anniversary edition of her novel, The God of Small Things (Random House), for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, was recently released. She is also the author of numerous nonfiction titles, including An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire.

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Arundhati Roy with Edward Snowden and John Cusack., From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, November 28, 2015
Edward Snowden meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack: "He was small and lithe, like a house cat" When I think back on the meeting in the Moscow Ritz-Carlton, the memory that flashes up first in my mind is an image of Daniel Ellsberg. Dan, after all those hours of talking, lying back on the bed, Christlike, with his arms flung open, weeping for what the United States has turned into -- a country whose "best people" must either go to prison or into exile.
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, November 19, 2011
a few "pre-revolutionary" thoughts I had Few of us dreamed that we would see you, the people of the United States on our side, trying to do this in the heart of Empire. I don't know how to communicate the enormity of what this means. This struggle has re-awakened our imagination. We are not fighting to just tinker with reforming a system that needs to be replaced.

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