Arundhati Roy Quotes

Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and political activist. She gained international acclaim for her debut novel, "The God of Small Things," which won the Booker Prize. Roy's writing explores themes of social inequality, political activism, and human rights. She has been an outspoken critic of government policies and has been involved in various social and environmental causes. Roy's literary and activist contributions have made her a prominent voice in contemporary Indian literature and public discourse.

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.

Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My char... -Arundhati Roy

Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me.

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.

Caste is about dividing people up in ways that preclude every form of solidarity, because even in the lowest castes, there are divisions and sub-castes, and everyone's co-opted into the business of this hierarchical, silo-ised society.

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone who has read 'The God of Small Things' would know, for me it was a dangerous place. I felt humiliated in that space. I wanted to get away as soon as I could.

Arundhati Roy Quotes

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