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    • Saturday, 23 May, 2020
      Life & Arts
      Arundhati Roy: after the lockdown, we need a reckoning

      India’s response to the pandemic has been a social catastrophe. Who will be held accountable?

    • Friday, 22 May, 2020
      Life & Arts
      The first thing I’ll do after lockdown is...

      Sailing the Med? Watching Arsenal? A hug? Christine Lagarde, Yuval Noah Harari, Carlo Rovelli and many more on their post-lockdown dream

    • Friday, 3 April, 2020
      Coronavirus: free to read
      Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’ | Free to read 

      The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next 

    • Thursday, 7 December, 2017
      FT MagazineWomen in 2017
      Arundhati Roy: ‘Always try to negotiate freedom. The royalties are peripheral’

      The best-selling novelist on outsiders, power and why she never wanted to write ‘The God of Small Things Two’

    • Friday, 29 September, 2017
      Nilanjana Roy
      The podcasts that give voice to a new form of storytelling

      How the spoken word is breathing life into fiction

    • Friday, 23 June, 2017
      FT SeriesSummer books 2017
      Summer books of 2017: Fiction

      Rebecca Rose selects her mid-year reads

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy — ‘compelling’

      The Indian writer’s first novel since ‘The God of Small Things’ two decades ago is grander still in ambition

    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2017
      Nilanjana Roy
      Arundhati Roy, pioneer of ‘wokeness’

      Re-reading ‘The God of Small Things’ two decades on, Roy’s novel still has the ability to shake readers out of stale ways of seeing the world

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    • Friday, 13 January, 2012
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      Beware the ‘gush-up gospel’ behind India’s billionaires

      The underclass is left ever further behind by the boom, writes Arundhati Roy

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      The professor is inspired by people who create happiness in their lives and in the lives of others

    • Friday, 2 September, 2011
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      India’s modern mutinies

      Asian powerhouse or failing state? Four reports provide an assessment from the margins of an economic boom

    • Monday, 16 May, 2011
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      Bento’s Sketchbook
    • Wednesday, 3 March, 2010
      David Pilling
      Subsidy reform can help India spend better

      Rationalisation must not be an excuse for the withdrawal of the state, writes David Pilling

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      Listening to Grasshoppers
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      Listening to Grasshoppers
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      Why is India producing so many great novelists?
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      World
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