“Women to Reclaim Public Space” Women’s Action Forum held a program of defiance and resistance at Karachi-Pakistan Press Club on 8th May 2009. Arundhati Roy was the closing speaker.
Taliban boy’s interview who asked the interviewer that government can ban the plastic shopping bags by making law then why can’t government of Pakistan ban women to not to come out of the houses? The point is that the plastic bag was made in a factory but so was the boy. He was made in a factory that is producing this kind …

It is the third part of article by Arundhati Roy titled Monster in the Mirror. The second part is entitled Terrorism and the Need for Context.
 A Close Embrace of Hatred, Terrifying Familiarity, and Love
by Arundhati Roy
On this nuclear subcontinent, that context is Partition. The Radcliffe Line, which separated India and Pakistan and tore through states, districts, villages, fields, communities, water systems, homes, and families, was drawn virtually overnight. It was Britain’s final, parting kick to us.
Partition triggered the massacre of more than a million people and the largest migration …

It is the Part 2 of the article “Monster in the Mirror” written by Arundahti Roy.
Terrorism and the Need for Context
Arundhati Roy
There is a fierce, unforgiving fault line that runs through the contemporary discourse on terrorism. On one side (let’s call it Side A) are those who see terrorism, especially “Islamist” terrorism, as a hateful, insane scourge that spins on its own axis, in its own orbit, and has nothing to do with the world around it, nothing to do with history, geography, or economics. Therefore, Side A says, to …

9 Is Not 11
(And November Isn’t September)
By Arundhati Roy
 
We’ve forfeited the rights to our own tragedies. As the carnage in Mumbai raged on, day after horrible day, our 24-hour news channels informed us that we were watching “India’s 9/11.” And like actors in a Bollywood rip-off of an old Hollywood film, we’re expected to play our parts and say our lines, even though we know it’s all been said and done before.
As tension in the region builds, U.S. Senator John McCain has warned Pakistan that, if it didn’t act fast …