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Arundhati Roy

September 2025

  • Arundhati Roy standing by a door

    Book of the day
    Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy review – brave and absorbing

    In this remarkable memoir, the Booker-winning novelist looks back on her bittersweet relationship with her mercurial mother

August 2025

  • An operator at the Revenge Porn Helpline office

    Six great reads
    Six great reads: the Revenge Porn Helpline, revolutionary architecture and how Netflix ruined movies

    Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the past seven days
  • Arundhati Roy in Kerala in June.

    Arundhati Roy on her fugitive childhood: ‘My knees were full of scars and cuts – a sign of my wild, imperfect, fatherless life’

    When war broke out between India and China, the author and her brother were taken by their mother on a chaotic journey from hill station squat to an eccentric household in Kerala. Would they ever find a safe space?
  • Books displayed for sale on a handcart in Srinagar, Indian Kashmir

    Arundhati Roy works among dozens of books banned in Indian-administered Kashmir

    Censorship order accuses books of promoting ‘false narrative and secessionism’ in disputed territory

May 2025

  • Head and shoulders shot of David Attenborough in blue shirt against dark background

    Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more

    This week the presenter turns 99. To celebrate, we asked 99 nature lovers – including Margaret Atwood, Jane Fonda, Bono, Kate Winslet and Michael Palin – how he has helped us see the world with fresh eyes

October 2024

  • Sally Rooney

    Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Arundhati Roy call for boycott of Israeli cultural institutions

  • Alaa Abd el-Fattah

    Imprisoned British-Egyptian activist named PEN writer of courage 2024

September 2024

  • Arundhati Roy

    Arundhati Roy to publish first memoir

    Booker prize-winning author of The God of Small Things will reflect on her life and complex relationship with her late mother in ‘radically honest’ book

June 2024

  • Arundhati Roy, with curly above-shoulder-level hair and wearing glasses and a button shirt over a T-shirt, rests her chin on her hand and smiles slightly

    Arundhati Roy wins PEN Pinter prize amid prosecution threat over Kashmir comments

    The announcement comes two weeks after Indian officials granted permission to prosecute the writer over comments she made 14 years ago
  • Arundhati Roy sits at a protest with a sign saying 'Free the press' attached to her shirt

    Open letter in India calls for withdrawal of go-ahead to prosecute Arundhati Roy

    Over 200 signatories urge government to reverse decision enabling action against writer under anti-terrorism law

    • The hounding of Arundhati Roy shows there’s still no room for dissent in India

      Salil Tripathi

    • India: author Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted over 2010 Kashmir remarks

    • Book of the day
      The Architecture of Modern Empire by Arundhati Roy review – two decades of fire

October 2023

  • Meena Kandasamy

    Arundhati Roy is being hounded by the Indian state. This is a test case for its democracy

    Meena Kandasamy
  • Arundhati Roy sits with a sign pinned to her shirt reading 'Free the Press'

    Author Arundhati Roy may face prosecution in India over 2010 speech

July 2022

  • A right pair … Lena Headey and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as as Cersei and Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about twins

    Writers from William Shakespeare to Angela Carter and George RR Martin have been been inspired by the doubled lives of these familial pairs

March 2022

  • My Brilliant Friend.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 mirrored lives in fiction

    From Oscar Wilde to Daisy Johnson, parallel lives – and what they say about choices and circumstance – have long been a source of fascination and inspiration for novelists

May 2021

  • Pankaj Mishra, Narendra Modi and Arundhati Roy

    Indian authors speak out over plan to reissue Narendra Modi exam book

    Pankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy attack Penguin Random House India for putting out book by a prime minister they say has mishandled Covid and persecuted writers

October 2020

  • Arundhati Roy.

    Book of the day
    Azadi by Arundhati Roy review – at her passionate best

    The author tackles Kashmir, Hindu nationalism and the dangers of being outspoken in this startling collection of essays

June 2020

  • Book seller arranges his street book stall for customers in Mumbai

    10 of the best books set in India – that will take you there

    Tired of narratives that obsess over spices, colours and cows on the road? These books, all by Indian writers, paint realistic pictures of the country’s geographical, cultural and political landscapes
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