Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy welcomes readers and writers alike to reflect on the meaning of freedom in her latest collection of essays.

Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.

Marion

I mention this because it taught me that the place for literature is built by writers and readers. It's a fragile place in some ways, but an indestructible one. When it's broken, we rebuild it. Because we need shelter. I very much like the idea of literature that is needed. Literature that provides shelter. Shelter of all kinds.

Over time, an unspoken compromise was arrived at.

I began to be called a 'writer-activist'. Implicit in this categorization was that the fiction was not political and the essays were not literary.

Fake news is the skeletal structrue, the scaffolding over which the specious wrath that fuels fascism drapes itself. The foundation on which that scaffolding rests is fake history - possibly the oldest form of fake news. The history being peddled by Hindu nationalists, that hackneyed tale of spurious valour and exaggerated victimhood in which history is turned into mythology and mythology into history, has been very ably perforated and demolished by serious scholars.

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