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Title: Arundhati Roy with Avi Lewis, 24 March 2010
Added: Apr 13, 2010
Author: lannanfoundation
Duration: 6:28
Description:
This is a brief intro to this event. The full event can be found at http://podcast.lannan.org/2010/04/14/arundhati-roy-reading-24-march-2010/ and http://podcast.lannan.org/2010/04/14/arundhati-roy-with-avi-lewis-conversation-24-march-2010/Arundhati Roy was born in 1959 in Shillong, India, and studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and their family, set in Kerala, India, during the late 1960s, when Communism rattled the age-old caste system. Roy received the Booker Prize for this book in 1997. She has written several nonfiction books, including The Cost of Living, Power Politics, War Talk, An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, and Public Power in the Age of Empire. In addition to writing, she has worked as a film designer and screenplay writer in India. Roy was featured in the BBC television documentary "Dam/age," which is about the struggle against big dams in India. A collection of interviews with Arundhati Roy by David Barsamian was published as The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile. Her newest book, published by Haymarket, is Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers. Roy last read in Santa Fe in 2002, when she received the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Youtube Comments: 5
earthvisitor3 Says:
Nov 12, 2010 - excellent and beautiful as well as talented
jkabc25 Says:
Jan 13, 2011 - She is a Disaster. She is Paid by Chinese agents to destabilize India in the name of Poor Indian Citizens..Long live India.Long live Democracy.
sagoooa Says:
Aug 25, 2011 - she is paranoid. Creates and lives in her own world.
agaman16 Says:
Oct 4, 2011 - there is no democracy any where its a tricky word which is best used....she may be paranoid but she shows the world that world is living in illusion...... she is too expensive and too paranoid to be paid by chinese.....pls give the lady some space ....finally she takes up issues like no one other.....grt
inder19852000 Says:
Sep 5, 2010 - She is my favourite author and activist