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Leaning score withheld for article 60307: attributed speech only · logged 2026-10-06
Award-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy says the ongoing protests against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government – mainly led by the satirical Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) – have stripped the right-wing Hindu nationalist leader of his “carefully confected image” propped up by India’s corporate-owned news channels and the governing Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) control over social media.
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protests → win → media
Speaking with Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan on a range of issues, including the Gen Z-led antigovernment protests and allegations of vote theft against Modi’s government, the 64-year-old Booker Prize-winning writer says she hopes the political climate in the world’s most populous democracy is about to change.
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climate → speak → democracy
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“I do feel that something is boiling just under the surface.
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something → write → surface
Something is going to happen,” she said.
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she → go → ?
“The emperor has been called out, and he has lost his power.”
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he → call → power
Here’s the interview Roy gave to Al Jazeera TV, edited for brevity.
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Roy → ’ → brevity
Your debut novel won the prestigious Booker Prize.
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novel → win → Prize
Since then, you have written acclaimed novels, hard-hitting political pieces, and collections of essays.
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you → write → essays
How would you describe yourself: novelist, writer or a political activist?
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you → describe → novelist
Or you don’t really think about those boundaries?
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you → think → boundaries
Well, I actually refrain from describing myself.
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I → refrain → myself
I will leave that to other people because, you know, why should we describe ourselves? And categorise ourselves?
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we → leave → ourselves
That’s for other people to do.
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people → ’ → ?
One of the things that links all of your different aspects is this idea of satire.
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that → link → satire
You are not chiefly a satirist, but in The God of Small Things and in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, you have used satire to devastating effects.
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you → use → effects
But it always seems to be about politics.
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it → seem → politics
I don’t think so.
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I → think → ?
I mean, in some ways it depends on how you define what politics is, right?
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politics → mean → ways
To me, even a fairy tale is in some ways political, but not let-me-hit-you-on-the-head-with-a-hammer or let-me-display-my-manifesto type of politics.
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me → let → politics
From my books and from the way I grew up, possibly the answer to your question is that there is no difference between the personal and the public space.
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answer → grow → personal
Let’s talk about India and its political climate.
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’s → let → India
You wrote about the CJP movement.
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You → write → movement
Now that’s a grassroots movement fuelled by young people who took an insult – of being called a cockroach – and owned it.
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who → ’ → it
And you started your essay with when hope seemed lost, in came these young roaches riding in the rain, “the progeny of the unholy union between a judge and a joke”, which is a brilliant line.
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which → start → judge
What drew you to this particular movement?
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What → draw → movement
Well, ironically, as we speak at this moment, there is a huge crisis brewing, and the cockroaches are back, saying they are going to be protesting all over the country in a few days because of the scandal exposed by a particular newspaper about the fact that India’s elections are completely compromised – which is something we have known and have written about for years.
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we → speak → years
So what drew me to it was this young people’s movement, which was full of joy and unusual humour – this new way of messaging with their [Instagram] reels and so on.
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which → draw → reels
It stripped Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s very carefully confected image.
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It → strip → image
And is it going to have an effect on India?
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it → go → India
No, I don’t think it’s a misunderstanding at all.
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it → think → ?
He and the BJP were the first to wade into the field of social media, so they have been there before anybody else.
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they → wade → anybody
But I just think there were too many things happening, one after another.
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I → think → another
And somehow this movement sort of broke.
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movement → break → ?
It was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
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that → break → back
It started out with the fact that in 2024 [election], Modi did not win a full majority…
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Modi → start → majority
So it all sort of came together to create this sort of irreverent but serious explosion.
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it → come → explosion
India publicly says we are an economic success story, a climate leader.
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we → say → ?
I mean, I don’t think there are many countries in the world where people live in such deep poverty, in such conditions of humiliation.
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people → mean → humiliation
And it’s a shame for people to boast about this being a super economic power, because, as I keep saying, it’s super poor.
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it → ’ → ?
Surely, there are extremely rich people, extremely rich industrialists who control everything, but very little of that seeps down to the poor…
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little → be → poor
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