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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy review brave and absorbing

Children often learn to tolerate and embrace maternal eccentricity and madness as intertwined with love, protection, nurture, and life’s strangeness.
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

A Rebel Writer's First Revolt

There was a moment in 1997, right after the Delhi-based writer became the first Indian citizen to win the Booker Prize, for her best-selling debut, The God of Small Things, when the president and the prime minister claimed the whole country was proud of her. She was 36 and suddenly rich; she could have coasted on the money and praise. Instead, she changed direction. Furiously and at length, she started writing essays for Indian magazines about everything her country's elites were doing wrong.
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US politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Police raid Kashmir bookshops after India bans titles for secessionism'

Indian authorities banned 25 books, including one by Arundhati Roy, claiming they propagate false narratives and secessionism in Jammu and Kashmir.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

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

The Jammu and Kashmir government has banned 25 books for allegedly promoting a false narrative and secessionism.
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