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Topic: Arundhati Roy

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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

Arundhati Roy (Frontline) - The greater common good (campaigning against the Narmada dam)
Arundhati Roy's writing, precise and powerful, highlights her commitment to social, economic, and environmental justice.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

A temporary waning of nuclear fears and a lull in ethnic violence notwithstanding, Arundhati Roy warns that India is "sipping from a poisoned chalice-a flawed democracy faced with religious fascism.
Pete Trengle,
Bass Player

If `to combine idioms and to pull at the anchor' are common for the dancer, there are figures in literature (which is so close to dance), like Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy who, in their work, blur and transcend frontiers.
Indian activist writer Arundhati Roy, and pop icons Radiohead have already contributed their own demand.
Read Cowell’s article to see what former Booker Prize winners Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Arundhati Roy have to say about competing with American novelists.
Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant

Shehkar Gupta and of course Arundhati Roy gave the Pakistanis a glimpse of what free-thinking is.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

On the backwater trail : The Kumarakom bird sanctuary Spectacular stretches of palm fringed backwaters *Traditional, rustic homes *Ancient temples and churches in and around the Aymenam Village (of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things ' fame)
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

The tour is intended to take the visitor through the idyllic countryside as the River Meenachil, (remember Arundhati Roy's Booker-winning novel “ The God of Small Things ”
Arundhati Roy, who had triumphantly toured Australia with her Booker prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things, published a lucid essay in The Guardian on the darker forces propelling the war.
Arundhati Roy’s haunting novel The God of Small Things, about brother and sister twins growing up in a divided family and a politically unstable country, is pure poetry.
Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver

But in her case, the novel was not only published, but went on to become an international bestseller, earning her comparisons to Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy.
 
 
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