Arundhati Roy is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017. She is the author of various works of non-fiction including My Seditious Heart, Azadi and, most recently, The Architecture of Modern Empire.

Two decades of fire . . . Arundhati Roy is as stringent in her criticism of India’s social injustices as she is of the self-absorbed west in this wide-ranging collection of interviews . . . for all the grimness Roy catalogues, I was struck by her unbudgeable belief that there is still very much an India that inspires hope

Arundhati Roy is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017. She is the author of various works of non-fiction including My Seditious Heart, Azadi and, most recently, The Architecture of Modern Empire.

Two decades of fire . . . Arundhati Roy is as stringent in her criticism of India’s social injustices as she is of the self-absorbed west in this wide-ranging collection of interviews . . . for all the grimness Roy catalogues, I was struck by her unbudgeable belief that there is still very much an India that inspires hope

Arundhati Roy is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017. She is the author of various works of non-fiction including My Seditious Heart, Azadi and, most recently, The Architecture of Modern Empire.

Two decades of fire . . . Arundhati Roy is as stringent in her criticism of India’s social injustices as she is of the self-absorbed west in this wide-ranging collection of interviews . . . for all the grimness Roy catalogues, I was struck by her unbudgeable belief that there is still very much an India that inspires hope