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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
NEW DELHI -- In a new book, the award-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy takes aim at India's self-image -- and reputation -- as the world's largest and most vibrant democracy. Indian democracy, she asserts, is not only not working, it is "used up" and "hollowed out and emptied of meaning."
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Background: Born in the Himalayan state of Meghalaya, 1961. Studied in southern India and graduated in architecture from New Delhi's prestigious School of Planning and Architecture.
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
NEW DELHI: Author Arundhati Roy will read from her book “Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy” at Jamia Millia Islamia here this Wednesday. The reading session will be followed by a conversation with Prof. ...
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Pete Brown's Blog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
As a writer, there are many other writers I admire and appreciate. Sometimes I just enjoy them, other times I'm deeply envious of them. I can savour the wonderful lyricism of, say, Arundhati Roy without even thinking about my writing because it’s so different from anything I would ever do. But one writer I wish I could simply be is George Orwell. I will never, in all my days, be one hundredth...
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Undhimmi (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
... Commission Report – Omissions and Distortions by David Ray Griffin, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and copies of Mein Kampf (volumes one and two). “For some reason Hitler’s book is all the rage among educated people – on a typical day I can sell as many as five or six,” Mabul told the BBC. Hitler is not as popular as Dan Brown or Amartya Sen among Dhaka’s motorists and their passengers,...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Among his offerings are The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama, the 9/11 Commission Report - Omissions and Distortions by David Ray Griffin, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and copies of Mein Kampf (volumes one and two).
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Among his offerings are The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama, the 9/11 Commission Report - Omissions and Distortions by David Ray Griffin, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and copies of Mein Kampf (volumes one and two).
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Writer-activist Arundhati Roy slams ‘Green Hunt’ operation