Nov 24, 2023
Arundhati Roy, a prominent Indian author and activist, was born on November 24, 1961. She achieved widespread acclaim for her novel 'The God of Small Things,' a bestseller that clinched the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997.
In addition to her contributions as a writer across diverse media platforms and her authoring several, impactful books, Arundhati Roy is recognized as an activist deeply committed to safeguarding the human rights of minority groups.
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.”- Arundhati Roy
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“If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.” - Arundhati Roy
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“Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.” - Arundhati Roy
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“Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.” - Arundhati Roy
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“I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything.” - Arundhati Roy
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“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.” - Arundhati Roy
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“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” - Arundhati Roy
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“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.” - Arundhati Roy
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"I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult." - Arundhati Roy
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