"If I have helped to give courage to anybody… to step out of line… that’s lovely. I think it is very important for us to say: ‘We can! And we will! And don’t f*** with us!’"
- Arundhati Roy, to The Hindu
With The Ministry of Utmost Happiness , Arundhati Roy is making a return to fiction after an eventful gap of 20 years. After the Booker-Prize-winning, history-making success of The God of Small Things in 1997, she has written several work of non-fiction; but Arundhati Roy's brand of fiction remained an unfillable gap. In a few days from now, on June 5, that void is set to close. Ahead of the release of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness , Arundhati Roy has spoken at length about the book, her writing and her philosophy in a three-hour interview with Zac O'Yeah, for The Hindu . You can read it in tomorrow's edition of The Hindu newspaper and on our website.
