Quotes About Arundhati

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

If you ask me what is at the core of what I write, it isn't about 'rights', it's about justice. Justice is a grand, beautiful, revolutionary idea.

They looked cheerful in the photograph, Lenin and his wife. As though they had a new refrigerator in their drawing room, and a down payment on a DDA flat.

It was not entirely his fault that he lived in a society where a man's death could be more profitable than his life had ever been.

Oddly, neglect seemed to have resulted in an accidental release of the spirit.

She speaks the most beautiful Urdu.

The Maoists are not the only ones who seek to depose the Indian State. It's already been deposed, several times, by Hindu fundamentalism and economic totalitarianism.

There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.

When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. I thought that 300 people would read it. But it created a platform of trust.

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.