Quotes by : Arundhati Roy

Glanced up and caught Ammu's gaze. Centuries telescoped into one evanescent moment. History was wrong-footed,....

How history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws.

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen.....

If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between....

How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market"....

It was raining when Rahel came back to Ayemenem. Slanting silver ropes slammed into loose earth, plowing....

In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every person....

Suddenly Ammu hoped that it had been him that Rahel saw him in the march. She hoped it had been him that....

She discovered that underneath the aspect of the Rumpled Porcupine, a tortured Marxist was at war with....

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.