While critics were measuring her life as the length of time between novels, Arundhati Roy was out in the world, living it.
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Choosing Mother India
“People insist that only an idiot would move from the land of the dollar to the 68-times-weaker rupee.”
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‘They Taught Us How To Party, Marlboro Style’
The animation student felt a thrill as he entered the hotel. It grew when, as soon as he unlocked his luxurious room, he caught sight of a not-entirely-unexpected gift—a hamper of complimentary cigarettes and Zippo lighters. His excitement increased further over the next couple of days, filled with seminars and celebrations, and culminating in a […]
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A Brief History of Class and Waste in India
“This is the man who transformed teenage rebellion into a toilet revolution.”
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An illiterate child from a small town in India falls asleep on a train and ends up lost in Calcutta, unable to find his way back home. Twenty-five years later, while living with his adoptive family in Australia, he locates his lost hometown using memories and Google Earth: This was it, the name of the […]
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A man travels to the Dhamma Giri meditation center in western India to learn the meditation style known as Vipassana—the same meditation used by the Buddha to reach enlightenment 25 centuries ago. Enlightenment doesn’t come easy: There are no further instructions. And I can’t ask anyone what I’m supposed to do. So I sit, striving […]