Arundhati Roy

To Stop Corruption, Fight the Power, Not the People

Michelle Chen | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Transparency, Corruption, Welfare, India, Wall Street, White Collar Crime, Open Government, Rule of Law, Arundhati Roy, Africa, Globalization, Anna Hazare, China, Civil Rights, India Corruption, Haiti Corruption, Global Corruption, Political Corruption, World News

Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and in a world where the gap between the powerful and powerless grows wider each day, corruption in political and economic institutions spreads much faster than shame.

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10 Books You Really Should Have Read In High School: An Alternate List

flavorwire.com | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: David Foster Wallace, High School Books, Tolstoy, Art Spiegelman, Susan Sontag, Arundhati Roy, Books News

This week, we came across this list of ‘books you really should have read in high school’ over at MSNBC’s Today Books. While their picks are def...

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Indian Author Arundhati Roy In Trouble Over Kashmir Remarks

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW DELHI — Indian police were investigating Tuesday whether a Booker Prize-winning author and a hard-line Kashmiri separatist leader can be tri...

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Life Sentence for Indian Activist Shocks Nation

Betwa Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Naxalites, Maoists, Treason, Arundhati Roy, Binayak Sen, India, Corruption, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Chhattisgarh, World News

The life sentence handed to Indian activist, Binayak Sen, for committing treason has been condemned by the Indian public as well as intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and Amartya Sen.

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U.S. silence on Kashmir emboldens India's nationalists, empowers Taliban

Michael Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kayani, World News, World, Afghanistan, Krishna, Pakistan, Arundhati Roy, Obama, India, Taliban, Kashmir, Afghanistan War, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, World News

As ghastly as it was for an Indian diplomat to lexically collate the words Tibet and Kashmir within the same sentence, even more surprising was the di...

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India Drops Charges Sedition Against Award Winning Author Arundhati Roy

news.smh.com.au | Posted 05.25.2011

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India has decided against prosecuting award-winning author and activist Arundhati Roy for sedition after she spoke out about the disputed region of Ka...

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Prize-Winning Author Could Face Jail For Political Comments

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kashmir, Arundhati Roy Kashmir, India, Arundhati Roy Sedition, Arundhati Roy Investigation, Arundhati Roy Jail, Arundhati Roy, World News

Author Arundhati Roy, after making public statements that Kashmir was not a vital part of India, is being investigated by the Indian government and co...

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Let's Save the Real Avatar

Bianca Jagger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Kondh, Norwegian Pension Fund, Aluminium, Business, Ftse, Vedanta, Financial TImes, Bauxite, Anil Agarwal, Martin Currie, Development, Avatar, Aviva, Church of England, Naresh Chandra, Dongria Kondh, Amnesty International, The Guardian, Orissa, Oecd, Bianca Jagger, Dutch Pension Fund, Arundhati Roy, India, Railways Pension Fund, Times of India, Niyamgiri, Survival International, Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, Banktrack, Actionaid, Lanjigarh, Pggm, Business News

I am surprised that share-tipsters continue to recommend Vedanta as a desirable investment. Regrettably, many shareholders, content to read about the share price, remain silent about Vedanta's detrimental impact on local communities.

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Are Indian Books Romanticizing Maoist Rebels?

The Washington Post | Shilpa Jamkhandikar and Rina Chandran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Manmohan Singh, Red Alert, Indian Literature, Maoists, Books, Sudeep Chakravarti, Indian Films, Arundhati Roy, Bollywood, Reading, Maoist Rebels, Books News

They have been called India's biggest enemy, but Maoist rebels are also the unlikely subjects of a recent rash of movies and books that some say are r...

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'God Of Small Things' Author Arundhati Roy

smh.com.au | Dean Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Maoists, Authors, Literary Prizes, Arundhati Roy, God of Small Things, Books, Booker Prize, Books News

A Booker Prize-winning author is facing a police investigation over her links with Maoist insurgents behind the massacre of more than 70 soldiers....

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Arundhati Roy's Version of Disaster in "This Year of India"

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Communism, India, Maoists, Radio, Arundhati Roy, Conversation, Gandhi, Christopher Lydon, Capitalism, World News

Arundhati Roy is giving us "the other side of the story" in this "Year of India" at Brown University and elsewhere. Media consumers in the US don't g...

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Apologies to Pearl S. Buck

Celeste Ng | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edward P. Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Stereotypes, Chinese Culture, Arundhati Roy, The Good Earth, Fiction, The Known World, Nonfiction, Pearl Buck, Khaled Hosseini, Culture, Books News

Last weekend was Chinese New Year, a time when many people are introduced to bits of Chinese culture. So I have to make this confession: I hate The Good Earth.

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Take This Mine And Shove It: India Fights Coal, As Tribe Fights Mountaintop Removal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: London, Dirty Coal, Appalachia, Native People, Survival, Vedanta, Mining, Big Coal, Tribal People, Arundhati Roy, Green, India, Mountaintop Removal, British, Green Energy, Green News

With the blessing of the Indian Supreme Court, Vedanta plans to launch its own version of Appalachia-style mountaintop removal on the Niyamgiri mountain, which the Dongria Kondh tribe worships as a god.

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Interview with Arundhati Roy: 'We Need a Feral Howl'

Christina Patterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investment Climate, Globalisation, Nuclear Tests, Narmada Dam, 9/11, Afghanistan, India, Obama, Democracy, Booker Prize, The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy, Entertainment News

Roy is one of the only writers to have hit international stardom with fiction that won plaudits for its winsome playfulness and to have eschewed it, for more than a decade, for deadly serious polemic.

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