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• ‘A clarion call for peace’: recent coverage of Kashmir: The Case for Freedom

  Arifa Akbar writes in the Independent that Kashmir is full of 'urgent truths' about the disputed region and its struggle for independence, praising Arundhati Roy for a particularly 'powerful' contribution.  Paris Review recently published a short interview with Roy about her other recent book, Walking with the Comrades, in which she argues that in her opinion there is more hope to be found among the oppressed than their oppressors:

  I always find it interesting that when you’re with people who are really at the receiving end of oppression, you find a lot less despair than you do in middle-class drawing rooms. In these situations, despair is not an option. I wonder if the amount of information that is hammered into our heads day and night leads people to think that the world’s problems are so huge they’re insurmountable. Whereas people who are fighting against something in a more or less localized way are far clearer about what they have to do and how they have to do it.

   

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  By Decca Muldowney / 18 January 2012 / post comment

• We are all occupiers - Arundhati Roy at Occupy Wall Street

  Arundhati Roy spoke at the People's University in Washington Square Park, New York on 16th November. 

  What you have achieved since 17 September, when the Occupy movement began in the United States, is to introduce a new imagination, a new political language into the heart of empire. You have reintroduced the right to dream into a system that tried to turn everybody into zombies mesmerised into equating mindless consumerism with happiness and fulfilment.

  She went on to outline some possible demands for the Occupy movement: 

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  By Tamar Shlaim / 18 November 2011 / 1 comment