CETRI
Ecrivaine et militante indienne. Elle est notamment connue pour le roman Le Dieu des Petits Riens, pour lequel elle a obtenu le prix Booker en 1997, et pour son engagement en faveur de l’écologie, des droits humains et de l’altermondialisme.
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Movements are not radical anymore : Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy, Udhav Naig 21/09/15
The writer-activist observes that the Left needs an intellectual re-evaluation of the role played by caste in Indian society. The fortunes of the Left in India are not going to change dramatically just by effecting a change in its leadership. (...)
I’d rather not be Anna
Arundhati Roy 30/08/11
If what we’re watching on TV is indeed a revolution, then it has to be one of the more embarrassing and unintelligible ones of recent times. For now, whatever questions you may have about the Jan Lokpal Bill, here are the answers you’re likely to (...)
Walking With The Comrades
Arundhati Roy 14/12/10
In february 2010, quietly, unannounced, Arundhati Roy decided to visit the forbidding and forbidden precincts of Central India’s Dandakaranya Forests, home to a melange of tribespeople many of whom have taken up arms to protect their people (...)
To justify a land grab, Delhi has a new enemy : the Maoists.
Arundhati Roy 27/01/10
The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa. The hills watched over the Kondh. The Kondh watched over the hills and worshipped them as (...)