essay
A math question: How many soldiers will it take to contain the mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people?
Magazine | Nov 09, 2009
Correspondence
The literary editor of The Economist responds to Arundhati Roy's letter about the review of her book, Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy.
Web | Oct 10, 2009
For The Record
'Sometimes they say the Free Market provides a level playing field -- but then when questioned, they ask us to wait for Trickle Down. But things only Trickle Down slopes don't they?'
Web | Sep 07, 2009
essay
Is democracy a hit with humans because it mirrors our myopia?
Magazine | Jul 13, 2009
Chhatisgarh
Dr Binayak Sen's incarceration is meant to silence dissent, and criminalize democratic space. It is meant to absorb all our attention so that the stories of the hundreds of other nameless, faceless people - those without lawyers, without the attention of journalists - go unnoticed and unrecorded.
Web | Apr 06, 2009
Response
To call the foreign funded insurgency in Kashmir and the terror attacks across the country as justified blowback for the failures of the Indian state and civil society is both false and callous. It implies a failure of the imagination and the intellect and the complete abdication of moral responsibility by you.
Web | Dec 19, 2008
essay: terror in mumbai
(And November isn't September)
Magazine | Dec 22, 2008
kashmir
It's the only thing the Kashmiri wants. Denial is delusion.
Magazine | Sep 01, 2008
interview
'What does it matter if I fail?' asks the Booker winner on her second novel and of course, the first work of fiction since The God of Small Things
Magazine | Jul 28, 2008
short story
Arundhati Roy's first work of fiction since The God of Small Things in 1997 is an allegory, a powerful fable about Climate Change, the War on Terror and Corporate Raj
Magazine | Jul 28, 2008
For The Record
'If the Indian Government deports Taslima Nasrin, or holds her as an illegal alien, it will shame and diminish all of us... We demand that the spurious cases filed against M.F. Husain be dropped and that he be allowed to return to a normal life in India.'
Web | Feb 11, 2008
genocide
Genocide, Denial And Celebration
It's an old human habit, genocide is. It's a search for lebensraum, project of Union and Progress.
Magazine | Feb 04, 2008
For The Record
Response to Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn et al on Nandigram: "At this critical juncture it is crucial to articulate a Left position that is simultaneously against forcible land acquisition in Nandigram and for the right of Taslima Nasreen to live, write and speak freely in India..."
Web | Nov 25, 2007
EXCLUSIVE judiciary justice y.k. sabharwal
Judges in India are divine beings. And if you're an ex-CJI, your sins are above mortal reproach.
Magazine | Oct 01, 2007
Statement
'We deplore the recent attack on the CPM office at Nandigram, but deplore even more strongly the policy of retaliation advocated by some constituents of the Left Front Government, and the use of armed elements against the villagers, already at the cost of several lives.'
Web | Jan 09, 2007
Opinion
Deconstructing the complex Indian responses to Arundhati Roy reveals layers of prejudice. Apart from the macho male response, more intriguing is the Indian response to her at a personal level...
Web | Dec 28, 2006
EXCLUSIVE: Pre-publication extract
December 13. The season for reopening old wounds....A hyper campaign, a mysterious TV update, a book that sifts myth from fact on the Afzal issue.
UpdatesMagazine | Dec 18, 2006
Afzal Hanging
The Very Strange Story of the Attack on the Indian Parliament
Magazine | Oct 30, 2006
For The Record
'The Indians are teaching the Americans, too, how to occupy a place ... The occupation of Kashmir has taken place over years. ... In Iraq, you have 125,000 or so American troops in a situation of war, controlling 25 million Iraqis. In Kashmir, you have 700,000 Indian troops fully armed there .. and creating a situation, making it worse and worse and worse.'
Web | May 25, 2006
Democracy Now!
'The Indian government is negotiating India into a corner where ... you're trying to pretend that you're making some equal deal, but actually, you're officially signing a deal with an alligator ... it's not an equal partnership by any means.'
Web | Mar 04, 2006