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Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian at Seattle Town Hall.
Author of: An Ordinary Persons Guide to Empire
I think she's one of the most important thinkers more...in the world today. And
so utterly charming, and tells it like it T..I..S. The most eloquent
spokesman of our time!
Picking between detergents....Great & so True of an analogy.
Visit weroy.org for a whole documentary based on her Come September
speech.
Bio:
Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist,
activist and a world citizen. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for
her first novel The God of Small Things.
Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Keralite Syrian Christian
mother and a Bengali Hindu father, a tea planter by profession.
She spent her childhood in Aymanam, in Kerala, schooling in
Corpus Christi. She left Kerala for Delhi at age 16, and embarked
on a homeless lifestyle, staying in a small hut with a tin roof within
the walls of Delhi's Feroz Shah Kotla and making a living
selling empty bottles. She then proceeded to study architecture
at the Delhi School of Architecture, where she met her first husband,
the architect Gerard Da Cunha.
An unparalleled benchmark in documentary filmmaking. A wicked
soundtrack. Powerful imagery. Arundhati Roy's speech strikes to
the heart - every word poignantly and poetically weaving an
intricate tapestry of our modern global ache. America, hear her clarity
in objective voice; be confounded by it's compelling incisiveness.
The film brought me to tears... grief is an under-rated thing in the
American culture; main stream tv and movies have done a good job at
Desensitizing the general public to what really happens when a person
We love dies. less
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