“I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is th...” — Arundhati Roy Quote

“I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.”

“At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.”

“The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring. The heat lunged out at them like a famished beast. Then Rahel's Ammu was fed to it. Her hair, her skin, her smile. Her voice. They way she used Kipling to love her children before putting them to bed: We be of one blood, though and I. Her goodnight kiss. The way she held their faces steady with one hand (squashed-cheeked, fish-mouthed) while she parted and combed their hair with the other. The way she held knickers out for Rahel to climb into. Left leg, right leg. All this was fed to the beast, and it was satisfied.”