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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

  • Saturday, 9 February, 2013
    World
    India hangs Kashmiri over terror attack
  • Friday, 13 January, 2012
    Occupy protests
    Beware the ‘gush-up gospel’ behind India’s billionaires

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

  • Tuesday, 10 January, 2012
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    Ten Questions - Raquel Castaño

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

  • Friday, 2 September, 2011
    ReviewLife & Arts
    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
    ReviewLife & Arts
    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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    ReviewLife & Arts
    Listening to Grasshoppers
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    ReviewLife & Arts
    Listening to Grasshoppers
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    Why is India producing so many great novelists?
  • Wednesday, 15 October, 2008
    Life & Arts
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    Life & Arts
    A child’s garden of Eden
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    World
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