“Each time I write something I promise myself I’ll never do it again, because the fallout goes on for months; it takes so much of my time. Sometimes, increasingly, like of late, it turns dangerous. I actually don’t do research to write the pieces. My research isn’t project-driven. It’s the other way around—I write because the things I come to learn of from the reading and traveling I do and the stories I hear make me furious. I find out more, I cross-check, I read up, and by then I’m so shocked that I have to write.”
–Arundhati Roy in a really fabulous interview at Guernica.
Towards the end of last year, Roy’s house was attacked by right-wing activists after voicing her opinion on Kashmir. Media crews, who were “apparently tipped of about the protests,” did nothing to prevent the attacks and, according to Roy, their presence helped to instigate them.
