The Doctor And The Saint

The Hyderbabad English and Foreign Language University (EFLU) authorities have denied Booker Prize winner, noted Indian writer and human rights activist, Arundhati Roy, the permission to address students in the campus. Roy was invited by the ...

Arundhati Roy Arundhati Roy is a social activist and novelist, whose debut novel God of Small Things won the Booker Prize for literature in 1997. In 2004, Arundhati received Sydney Peace Prize for her work in social campaigns and advocacy of ...

Countercurrents.org The recent article of Arundhati Roy in Caravan, (http://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/doctor-and-saint) raises many important questions as regards the contributions of Gandhi and Ambedkar. She does it brilliantly and ...

"I've always been slightly short with people who say, 'You haven't written anything again,' as if all the nonfiction I've written is not writing,"' Arundhati Roy said.  ReadThat's Siddhartha Deb's interview with Roy for the NYT. Deb's riveting essay on IIPM's Arindam Chaudhuri for Caravan magazine is a must read, but it's not available for reading online after Chaudhuri slapped the magazine with a law suit.  ...

Arundhati Roy writes to Penguin India, her publishers

In a response to the outrage expressed by writers and intellectuals including Ramachandra Guha and Arundhati Roy, Penguin Books India on Friday placed the blame for its decision to pulp all copies of the Indian edition of The Hindus by Wendy Doniger ...

Arundhati Roy has written an open letter to Penguin India in which she asks what terrified them into taking the book The Hindus: An Alternative History off the stands even before there was a fatwa or ban, even though the fascists are campaigning… ...

Penguin India has recalled and destroyed copies of Wendy Doniger's book The Hindus: An Alternative History. Booker prize-winning author Arundhati Roy spoke to the BBC regarding this situation, she "just couldn't believe they have done this." She ...

Penguin India on Thursday woke up to an onslaught from its authors, Indias first Booker winner Arundhati Roy among the most prominent, who took on the publisher for capitulation to an unknown entity by agreeing to withdraw Wendy Donigers The Hindus: ...