Arundhati Roy to speak on 'Waqt ki Aahat'

'She was just a little girl. She didn't understand religion. Who is Hindu, who is Muslim.''She was just 8! Why punish her?'The family of the eight-year-old girl who was gang-raped and murdered in Jammu's Kathua district say everything has changed since that horrific crime.Rediff.com's Swarupa Dutt reports. IMAGE: The mother of the eight-year-old girl who was gang-raped and murdered sits before her clothes in their home in Rasana village, Kathua district, Jammu.The Bakarwal community they ...

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'The claim to truth cannot be made by the writer, but must be felt by the reader. The whole thing to a novel is its fragility and openness to interpretation,' says the acclaimed author. But she will defend her essays. Photograph: Courtesy Haymarket Books/Facebook What gives Arundhati Roy utmost happiness? These days it is the Hindi and Urdu translations of her second novel. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness has already been translated into over 40 languages and its Hindi and Urdu versions ...