I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I... -Arundhati Roy

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.

Arundhati Roy , Novelist
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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.

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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....
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...
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, f...
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 ...
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...
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-caste...
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...
Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationsh...
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 i...
Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me....

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As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is...
I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in ...
The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences....
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first....
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Cen...
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services....
The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, wh...
Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demoniz...
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature....
What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?...