Arundhati Roy
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Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: A bold polemic to rattle the Indian plutocracy’s cage from the Booker prizewinner
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Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
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Big names from the world of culture dominate this month’s gallery – including David Hockney, Debbie Harry and Noel Fielding – as we showcase the best Observer photography
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Arundhati Roy’s fans have waited 17 years for a follow-up to her Booker-winning debut novel. Meanwhile she has thrown herself into political activism. She talks to Andrew Anthony
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Sai Ram, burned alive because of a stray goat, was just one of 17,000 Dalits to fall victim to caste violence in the state of Bihar
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Prize-winning author questions position in India of 'person whose doctrine of nonviolence was based on brutal caste system'
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Robert McCrum: AQA boss Andrew Hall says 'we can't please everyone' - but he might have done some basic homework before sitting the exam
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Major writers including Arundhati Roy and Neil Gaiman condemn 'egregious' suppression of Wendy Doniger's book
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Jane Martinson: There are only 15 women in the list of 65 great thinkers. And the top 10 are all male. What, as women, are we to think of this?
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Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi calls for reform of colonial-era law on sedition after leaving jail as minister promises to review charges
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Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'
Arun Gupta: The prize-winning author of The God of Small Things talks about why she is drawn to the Occupy movement and the need to reclaim language and meaning
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What do India's writers think about its role as a new superpower? Aditya Chakrabortty speaks to Arundhati Roy and Siddhartha Deb
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The Booker prize-winning novelist on her political activism in India, why she no longer condemns violent resistance – and why it doesn't matter if she never writes a second novel
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Ian Jack: Arundhati Roy took the literary world by storm 14 years ago with The God of Small Things. Since then she's become her country's harshest critic and its most fearless activist
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Who are India's real traitors?
Indra SinhaIndra Sinha: It is India's wealthy elite that is turning its back on the nation and its people, not Arundhati Roy
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Novelist's Delhi home besieged by Hindu women demanding that she quit India because of her views on Kashmir
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Attacks in India by Naxalite insurgency have surged since extremist factions joined forces
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'This is India, a land of sensory and poetic overload, a land teeming with literary prizes for those who can find the right imagery to win them'
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The Booker prize-winning author and activist Arundhati Roy goes deep inside Central India's Dandkaranya Forests to meet the tribal people and Maoist guerillas who, together, have taken up arms against the state
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Pankaj Mishra on Arundhati Roy: Hindu nationalists have many ways to silence writers