Arundhati Roy: The Waterstones Interview
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2017
- Arundhati Roy shot to fame when she won the Man Booker Prize in 1997 for her debut novel, The God of Small Things. Twenty years later her second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, finally hits the shelves. We got the chance to talk to her about early success, what motivates her to write and why the caste system that dominates Indian culture is just one of the ways in which labels can control and restrict us.
There are limited numbers of signed editions available here: bit.ly/2qX1U5T
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is available now: bit.ly/2qT1aDN - Zábava
A controversial, brave, bold and honest voice. People like Arundhati are seldom liked any where. That is a pity.
With 'amazing grace,' Arundhati Roy; you've opened myriad hearts and minds around the globe via your undaunted determination to pen truth to power. Namaste!
We all love you Arundhati!!!
As an Indian, I am proud of her. I may not support her some views. Its ok. We live in a democracy
If you dont agree with her, its your problem. Your feeling may not be my feeling as an Indian. I may getting too much insulted when my people gangrape women and my people live in abject poverty
Have you heard of Noam Chomsky, one of the greatest intellectuals of all times. He is jewish American and criticizes USA. For eg, do you really think our media is free to report on Kashmir? If Kashmiris get same benefits like a Keralite, why on earth are they not willing to join India? When corporations and government want to displace indigenous people in Central India for bauxite, what should they do? We live in our middle class home as if in a bubble and reality of our own. Writers are intellectuals who reflect our society. Dont you think its bad as a party to force dietary habits on others? Our lives are ruled by major corporation who have shares again in big media houses. In Nazi Germany, first thing they did was to shut up writers and intellectuals
As an Indian, I dont think India is going in a right direction. I like
Modiji being a powerful leader and puts India as a great nation on
international platform. Indians are getting divided. You cannot force
people not to eat some meat. Whats then the difference between muslim extremists and them? Modi is going in a direction which Hitler did. Hitler lifted a bankrupt Germany and brought Jobs to his people. At the expense of millions of Jews! When BJP gets majority in both houses, who knows how they will change the constitution. When you use religion for dividing people in a country, you can see where they ended up in countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh?
Are you talking about a Hindu constitution or a secular indian constitution? Kerala has 30% Muslims and Christians and Hindus who eat beef. So you cannot force people. What I eat and with whom I share bed with is none of anyone´s business. First we have to make sure that our mothers and sisters can walk freely on our streets without being raped. Isnt it a shame women dont have safety in a country where we worship Goddesses?
She is so beautiful
She has broken all sordid rules of world.Hats off to her!
Her books, essays,interviews, fearlessly exposes the mad world of SHOCK & AWE, JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES being unleashed by USA UK ISRAEL SAUDI. Her voice is that Sanity,Humanity, & Humility. She's a credit to India.
novel as a city, incendiary borders...that osmotic world...iron grids, subversions, fiction as form of prayer
She is admirable. Although I do not subscribe to all her views. She is one of the best social justice warriors India has.
കാര്യം പറയൂ She wants to divide India into ten countries. She is the snake of India.
No we don't want her please take her
It's hilarious to see all the sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, extremist, radical Muslims commenting here on the 'bravery' of this woman.
SO CUTE AND INTELLIGENT
Arundhati wears on her left hand an old-fashioned analogue watch. Her ad-libs are more thought-provoking than a selection from an anthology of Wit and Wisdom. Power absolves itself. Her universe is peopled with creatures, minerals, phenomena, ephemera, and epiphanies. Rocks and stones and trees. And a consortium of cartels wearing green and swearing by it.
You are right, baby. It's time to divorce hope from reason. Art is the apotheosis of solitude.
i have never come across with anybody like her, the way she thinks is fascinating. i feel possessed when she starts speaking.
The interviewer is one of the worst I have ever seen. "Almost sub-human in their poverty" - has he even read her books?! She renders poor people their humanity in the fullest and most beautiful way.
Hi Gabriel. What I meant was that others treat them as sub-human, not Roy as the author. As you say, she renders them brilliantly and with an attention to detail that makes them feel as real as fictional characters can. The way that some in society treat the poor, or rather the way that people can walk past those suffering extreme poverty is to see them as 'other', as not like them, to place them outside their sphere so that they don't have to deal with the responsibility for them. That's what I was alluding to - sorry that I didn't make that clearer.
Very nice speech you are so good looking I love you Arundhati
i hope what you say is not a marketing strategy. bcoz i believe in what you say.
So much for writers having a good vocabulary..
@@assasination1100 ....and so much for legible reading.
She is asma jhangeer of indian..... respect from Pakistan
who on earth is washing dishes in the background
No woman has motivated me more...i wish i had 1% of her luck as well...
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
should have been in jail
It's need of thought. Arudhanti roy
mahatma - "god , my birth centenary is fast approaching ! i feel the world is forgetting my life & message. don't u think so? ". god replies " don't worry my son . i have an angel who is researching on you for the last twenty years. first she wrote hymns on me 'god' n now she is into you .her greatest skill is to present the pure fiction as facts as if she was the ' eye witness of all things' (my position hijacked). i need to alert my child obama to be brave because her next twenty years are dedicatedc on my another beloved son martin luther king.do not worry. india is a land of seekers. no matter how much spice they eat they have the capacity to digest. your life was your message. it is upto the people to absorb your values from their perceptions ! god bless india , sorry i bless india ".
Does she realy take koken
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By god India has changed in the last 25 years! The millions of have nots now have a purpose. The middle class now includes what used to be the poorest and the weakest (not all ofcourse we still have a long way to go) now have the means and importantly a voice!! Finally Indians are beginning to take pride in being Indians. Just that Ms Roy doesn't want to believe it. She even seems sad about it.
I say this as an urban educated, book reading, freedom of speech loving 'left leaning ' person.
arundathi roy other name fasicicm
what a f*ng joke
Arundhati's not very articulate or intellectually sharp.
The way she speaks is utter cringe..!