New Delhi: It is the sad demise of love and gentleness — at the behest of skewed patriotism and extreme nationalism — that comes across as the most troubling feature of current times for writer-activist Arundhati Roy. The very fundamentals of the country, she contended in an interview to IANS, are[Read More…]
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‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ not for movie, says Arundhati Roy
Author Arundhati Roy has said her second book “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” is not a novel which is to be made into a movie. With “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”, Roy has marked her return to the world of literary fiction this year, after a gap of two decades.[Read More…]
Arundhati Roy in race for her second Man Booker Prize
Paul Auster, Colson Whitehead and past winner Arundhati Roy are among the contenders for this year’s Man Booker Prize for their fiction novels. Roy, who won the prize in 1997 for her fiction “The God of Small Things,” is in the race again with her long-awaited second novel, “The Ministry[Read More…]
Apex Court stays criminal contempt proceedings against Arundhati Roy
On Monday, the Supreme Court stayed an order of criminal contempt proceedings against well-known author and activist, Arundhati Roy. The proceedings were initiated suo motu by the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court in 2015 due to some allegedly made remarks against the judiciary for not granting bail to[Read More…]