It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.
Arundhati RoyYou begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.
Arundhati RoyThere is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me.
Arundhati RoyThe minute what you think of as radical becomes an institutionalised, funded operation, you're in some trouble.
Arundhati Roy