'The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.' - Arundhati Roy,
The Progressive Magazine, April 2001, p. 38.

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Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

'Perhaps that's what the 21st century has in store for us.
The dismantling of the Big. Perhaps it will be the Century of the
Small Things.' - Arundhati Roy.


  • Transcript of Arundhati Roy reading and Ms. Roy and Howard Zinn in conversation, Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 18 September 2002.

  • Confronting Empire Arundhati's speech
    "It is a myth that the free market breaks down national barriers. The free market does not threaten national sovereignty, it undermines democracy... But remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them."
    (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 28 January 2003)

  • AR's childhood in Kerala, India.

  • Site on A. Roy.

(TGOST) really delves, very deep I think, into human nature. The story tells of the brutality we're capable of, but also that aching, intimate love. And for me the twins are what that is about...the ability to actually dream each other's dreams and to share each other's happiness and pain." -Arundhati Roy.

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget. -Arundhati Roy.

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