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Arundhati Roy on social justice

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Capitalism: A Ghost Story

From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India.

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Arundhati Roy
2014
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Arundhati Roy “The Pandemic Is a Portal”

Arundhati Roy reads from her new essay “The Pandemic is a Portal,” from her forthcoming book Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. releasing in September from Haymarket Books.

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Arundhati Roy
2020
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Public Power in the Age of Empire

An inspiring exegesis on the roles of democracy and activism in a violent times.

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Arundhati Roy
2004
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Mr Chidambaram`S War

The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa. The hills watched over the Kondh. The Kondh watched over the hills and worshipped them as living deities.

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Arundhati Roy
2009
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Arundhati Roy—Come September Speech

In this acclaimed Lannan foundation lecture from September 2002, Roy speaks poetically to power on the US' War on Terror, globalization, the misuses of nationalism, and the growing chasm between the rich and poor.

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Arundhati Roy
2012
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Arundhati Roy on BBC: Capitalism Not Working for Masses

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Arundhati Roy
2015
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2014 UCL Lancet Lecture by Arundhati Roy—The Half-Life of Caste: The Ill-Health of a Nation

In this lecture she speaks about the practice of caste in India and how it received support from many of those who lead India’s struggle for Independence including Mahatma Gandhi. She argues that caste has been modernised and entrenched by democracy in India.

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Arundhati Roy
2014
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Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers

This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism, and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy.

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Arundhati Roy
2015
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Trickle Down Revolution

Here in India, even in the midst of all the violence and greed, there is still immense hope. If anyone can do it, we can do it, writes Arundhati Roy.

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Arundhati Roy
2010
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Pandemic Is a Portal: Arundhati Roy on COVID-19 in India, Imagining Another World & Fighting for It

Officials in India say six major cities are coronavirus hot spots, including the capital city, New Delhi. We go there to speak with writer and activist Arundhati Roy, who has a new essay on how "The Pandemic Is a Portal.

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Arundhati Roy
2020
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