Row over Arundhati's Remarks Gains Momentum

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The English Club of Govt Vocational Higher Secondary School, Paruthippally, interacted with the Booker Prize winning author Arundhati Roy recently as part of an educational conclave at the Kerala University Senate Hall, ...

Godse put bullets into the Mahatma because he was allegedly too pro-Muslim and anti-Hindu; Roy wants to erase the name of Gandhi from every institution that currently carries it because, she says, Gandhi was an out-and-out casteist.

Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 22, 2014: In novel mode of protest, members of a Gandhian forum in Kerala has sent a copy of Mahatma’s autobiography “My experiments with truth” to Booker prize winning writer Arundhati Roy to condemn her derogatory ...

Author and Man Booker prize winner Arundhati Roy, who has consistently castigated Mahatma Gandhi for his ‘çasteist’ tendencies, went a step further on Thursday, saying it is high time that institutions named after the Father of the Nation be rechristened.

The real struggles and battles of actual heroes such as Ayyankali in Kerala or Jyotiba Phule in Maharashtra, who successfully led mass movements against upper class brutalities, will continue to be kept away from popular imagination as long as the ...

"Now, we have a democratically elected totalitarian government. Technically and legally, there is no party with enough seats to constitute an opposition", says Indian-author and activist Arundhati Roy in an interview to the Dawn newspaper.

Intellectuals and teachers, including Arundhati Roy, on Friday, condemned the arrest of English professor G N Saibaba on charges of alleged involvement in Maoist activities, saying it was "arbitrary and illegal" and an attempt to stifle voice of dissent. In a ...

Noted writer and activist Arundhati Roy on Monday said discussion about “real issues” plaguing Indian society was missing from the main political discourse of the country.Speaking to report...

Capital: a Portrait of 21st-Century Dehli Rana Dasgupta Canongate, 512pp, £25 Capitalism: a Ghost Story Arundhati Roy Haymarket Books, 125pp, $14.95 Midway through India's recent election, I watched Meera Sanyal talk at a campaign event ...