Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger. Arundhati Roy More Quotes by Arundhati Roy More Quotes From Arundhati Roy My writing is translated into every Indian language, it's distributed in pamphlets, in little private video things, it's everywhere. So it's a lovely pastime for the middle class to think of itself as the whole nation. Arundhati Roy writing class thinking Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many. Arundhati Roy flags india mind I can't be a part of the large convoy because it's not a choice that you can make. The fact that I'm an educated person means that I can't be on that convoy. I don't want to be on it. I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness. Arundhati Roy choices darkness mean Caste is about dividing people up in ways that preclude every form of solidarity, because even in the lowest castes, there are divisions and sub-castes, and everyone's co-opted into the business of this hierarchical, silo-ised society. Arundhati Roy caste society business people For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone who has read 'The God of Small Things' would know, for me it was a dangerous place. I felt humiliated in that space. I wanted to get away as soon as I could. Arundhati Roy me family god people I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily. Arundhati Roy nothing village romantic believe Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything. Arundhati Roy everything just one-thing beautiful 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. Arundhati Roy me you justice beautiful To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in which they live. But it used to be our job. Arundhati Roy live job me society I could have lived anywhere in the world now if I wanted to. Arundhati Roy anywhere lived now world Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system. Arundhati Roy caste injustice dream today I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people who've grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don't think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it's a different kind of love. Arundhati Roy you tree love people 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. Arundhati Roy think political simple ideas Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So, it's about egalitarianism. It's about sharing things more equally. It's about access to natural resources. Arundhati Roy sharing person india life Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me. Arundhati Roy everyone live alone me
