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Arundhati Roy

Ahead of the virtual Women of the World Festival, Arundhati Roy discusses Indian politics and Kashmir, campaigning and the influence of architecture on her writing.

Arundhati Roy, the Man Booker prize winning author and campaigner, is in conversation with Philip Dodd about a life in the public eye and the novel she published 20 years after The God of Small Things. She discusses the politics of Kashmir, the influence of architecture and why she chose a graveyard setting for her novel and how writing a transgender character Anjum, who is a Hijra, helped her tell the story. Her second novel is called The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.

The virtual Women of the World Festival takes place June 27-28 2020 https://thewowfoundation.com/wow-global-24/
You can find a playlist of Free Thinking conversations called Women in the World /programmes/p084ttwp

Producer: Zahid Warley.

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45 minutes

Credits

Role Contributor
Interviewed Guest Arundhati Roy
Presenter Philip Dodd
Producer Zahid Warley

Broadcasts

  • Tue 6 Jun 2017 22:00
  • Tue 6 Mar 2018 22:00
  • Thu 25 Jun 2020 22:00

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