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I'm not somebody who plans my life. In fact, I don't know what's going to happen here in India, it's such a strange climate here at the moment. So very worrying.

Arundhati Roy

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Arundhati Roy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: September 24
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It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.
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Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.
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To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.
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With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.
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Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.
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Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.
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The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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America is like some crazed, bewildered, rich giant bumbling around in a poor area with his pockets stuffed with money, and lots of weapons - just throwing stuff around.
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Use your art to fight.
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the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.
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But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
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Things can change in a day.
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A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest. She never found her way out. No one noticed her panicked car-window appeals. She died on the backseat, with her legs in the air. Like a joke.
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Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world
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To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.
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India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition.
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As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.
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It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened
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