Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad rebellion? The one that produces haunting music and exquisite textiles? The one that invented the caste system and celebrates the genocide of Muslims and Sikhs and the lynching of Dalits? The country of dollar billionaires? Or the one in which 800 million live on less than half-a-dollar a day? Which India?"


Things That Can and Cannot Be Said (ed. Penguin UK, 2016) - ISBN: 9780241980095

Arundhati Roy Quotes

Anyway, what is a country? When people say, Tell me about India, I say, Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad rebellion? The one that produces...

Anyway, what is a country? When people say, Tell me about India, I say, Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad rebellion? The one that produces...

Anyway, what is a country? When people say, Tell me about India, I say, Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad rebellion? The one that produces...

Anyway, what is a country? When people say, Tell me about India, I say, Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad rebellion? The one that produces...