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• Arundhati Roy, The Conscience of Indian Democracy

  
  Sinlung — Authority: 454
  By Hervé Kempf People in France are undoubtedly discussing Albert Camus’ Pantheonization in order to celebrate a character that has disappeared from this country: that of the writer-activist. A thousand leagues from here, in New Delhi, Arundhati Roy doesn’t even ask: the author of the global best-seller, ...
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• The Technocrats of India

  
  subMedia — Authority: 413
  I was meandering through a shop a few months ago - one of those hipster places that sells things that make you feel like you’re not really buying but sharing whatever the hell it is that’s caught your eye. My friend, who was similarly meandering about pointed to someone and said to me, “Isaac, America’s the ...
  2 weeks ago

• India: The Largest Democracy? Arundhati Roy Disturbs Democratic Daydreaming

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 583
  Book review by Trond OverlandArundhati Roy is an unusual Indian woman. Instead of acting the graceful upholder of traditional values, she goes on challenging the hard core of establishment thinking. Roy is India’s leading commentator on such evils as militaristic imperialist capitalism, Hindu-supported genocide ...
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• What We Have Done to Democracy

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 434
  Arundhati Roy’s New Book Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers Looks at What We Have Done to DemocracyWritten by Al Huebner     Cross-Post from Toward Freedom The essays in this new book by the brilliant Indian writer Arundhati Roy cover topics that range from the attack on the Indian Parliament ...
  2 weeks ago

• Novelist Arundhati Roy speaks out on democratic lapses in India

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 948
  NEW DELHI -- In a new book, the award-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy takes aim at Indias self-image -- and reputation -- as the worlds largest and most vibrant democracy. Indian democracy, she asserts, is not only not working, it is "used up" and "hollowed out and emptied of meaning."
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• SUNDAY SERMON: Arundhati Roy

  
  ill-literacy.com — Authority: 134
  I’m brainstorming a piece about campus activism right now.  Especially in light of Dahlak’s protest against the UC protests (which I strongly back him up on), there is a whole can of worms centered around the themes of sides, stances, and the ways we go about dealing with them.  Ultimately, topics like ...
  3 weeks ago

• Arundhati Roy – On Human Costs of India’s Economic Growth, Kashmir & Other Issues

  
  Wonders of Pakistan — Authority: 131
  Author Arundhati Roy on the Human Costs of India’s Economic Growth, the View of Obama from New Delhi, and Escalating US Attacks in Af-Pak Note for WoP readers: In March ‘09 issue ( here and here ) of WoP we brought to you a detailed essay on 26/11 attacks in Mumbai by Arundhati Roy, India‘s most ...
  3 weeks ago

• ‘A narrow idea of India fuels illiberal tendencies’

  
  churumuri — Authority: 133
  Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma of the University of Hyderabad in Mail Today : “The label of India being the largest democracy is not enough. It is not sufficient for us to go through the motions of conducting elections; sending representatives to Parliament and legislatures is not enough. Along with democracy, ...
  4 weeks ago

• In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989)

  
  MemsaabStory — Authority: 413
  Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things) wrote and stars in this poignant and funny made-for-TV movie about a group of architecture students at the end of their fifth and final year in 1974 New Delhi. I didn’t really know what to expect; the only thing I knew about it was that a very young [...]
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