Earlier this week
...Elgin Road. Raksha, with her curly hair, dusky skin, wide smile and that instantly approachable attitude reminds one of Arundhati Roy, if Roy could be cuddly. Her book includes personal anecdotes by Kumar Mangalam Birla, Jaya Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar,...
...the grenades and the machineguns. On the day after the attacks began the Indian writer, campaigner and serial explanatist Arundhati Roy lambasted her country on The World Tonight on BBC's Radio 4 for its rural poverty and its fluctuating support for...
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...In her book "Power Politics," Arundhati Roy posits that though we have "free" speech, it's not actually free. The social pressure to get and go along, the cultural capital of complacency, stands against the roles writers take on in public. As a culture...
...the growing popularity of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie, Kirin Desai, Rohinton Mistry, Arundhati Roy, Vikram Chandra and others, many American readers still see India -- a giant, complex country of many cultures, languages and voices -- through...
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