“I know that a world in which countries are stockpiling nuclear weapons and using them in the ways that India and Pakistan and America do to oppress others and to deceive their own people is a dangerous world.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayCountryAmericaDangerousWeaponsIndiaNuclearNuclear WeaponsDeceivingPakistanDangerous WorldIndia And Pakistan Author:Arundhati Roy
“India is still flinching from a cultural insult, still looking for its identity.” StillsIdentityIndiaInsult Author:Arundhati Roy
“Indian intellectuals today feel radical when they condemn fundamentalism, but not many people are talking about the links between privatization, globalization, and fundamentalism.” PeopleFeelsTodayTalkingRadicalIndianLinksFundamentalismGlobalizationPrivatization Author:Arundhati Roy
“When people stop some film from being shot or burn a book, it's not just that they are saying, this is against Indian culture. They are also saying, you Westernized, elite, English-speaking people are having too much of a good time. It's a very interesting phenomenon.” PeopleBookFilmCultureInterestingToo MuchShotsIndianGood TimesPhenomenonElitesVery InterestingIndian CultureEnglish Speaking Author:Arundhati Roy
“The religious rightwingism is directly linked to globalization and to privatization. When India is talking about selling its entire power sector to foreign multinationals, when the political climate gets too hot and uncomfortable, the government will immediately start saying, should we build a Hindu temple on the site of the Babri mosque? Everyone will go baying off in that direction. It's a game.” ShouldGovernmentPoliticalGamesReligiousTalkingIndiaHotClimateSellingUncomfortableTemplesSiteLinkedGlobalizationMosquesMultinationalsPrivatization Author:Arundhati Roy
“With one hand, you're selling the country out to Western multinationals. And with the other, you want to defend your borders with nuclear bombs. It's such an irony! You're saying that the world is a global village, but then you want to spend crores of rupees on building nuclear weapons.” WorldWantCountryHandsBuildingWeaponsWesternNuclearSellingIronyBordersBombsVillageNuclear WeaponsNuclear BombMultinationalsGlobal VillageRupees Author:Arundhati Roy
“In Delhi the cars are getting bigger and sleeker, the hotels are getting posher, the gates are getting higher, and the guards are no longer the old chowkidars, the watchmen, but they are fellows with guns. And yet the poor are packed into every crevice like lice in the city. People don't see that anymore. It's as if you shine a light very brightly in one place, the darkness deepens around.” PeopleIfsLightPoorCitiesDarknessCarHigherGunBiggerFellowsShiningHotelGatesGetting HighDelhiCreviceLice Author:Arundhati Roy
“The people who are getting rich can't imagine that the world is not a better place.” PeopleWorldRichImagineImagine ThatBetter PlaceGet Rich Author:Arundhati Roy
“I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.” WantDarknessVictimDisappear Author:Arundhati Roy