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Arundhati Roy: India’s fighter for the oppressed makes no concessions: the Indian novelist and social activist wields a sharp pen, taking a stand for society’s outcasts and combating oppression. Talking to Yves Bossart, she reveals why she fears for her country, the world’s largest democracy.
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Published 20 years ago, her first novel «The God of Small Things» was a worldwide success. Now Arundhati Roy’s latest offering «The Ministry of Utmost Happiness» has just hit the shelves. In the time between, this critic of globalisation and globalisation has been busy beating the drum to highlight the plight of outsiders and oppressed people alike. The writer has become India’s guilty conscience, raising her voice for the Adivasi – India’s indigenous people – and the Dalits, the so-called Untouchables of the Indian caste system. She has condemned nuclear armament, criticised Hindu nationalism under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and criticised the myth surrounding Mahatma Gandhi. What kind of future does the Indian writer and social activist envisage for her country? Where does the world’s largest democracy stand now, seventy years after independence?
«Sternstunde Philosophie» SRF Kultur, 16.09.2017
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