Lannan Readings & Conversations

Arundhati Roy

with Howard Zinn
Wednesday September 18 2002

Reading, September 18, 2002
Conversation, September 18, 2002

Transcript: Arundhati Roy’s acceptance speech “Come September”

Transcript: Arundhati Roy in conversation with Howard Zinn

Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1998. She has also published The Cost of Living, a book of two essays on India's massive dam and irrigation projects and its successful detonation of a nuclear bomb. Her most recent book of essays is Power Politics. Ms. Roy, who was trained as an architect, is an outspoken critic of India's nuclear weapons testing and controversial environmental policies. She lives in New Delhi, India.

Arundhati Roy Bio and Cross Links


Howard Zinn, a professor emeritus of political science at Boston University, is the author of twenty books, including You Can't Remain Neutral on a Moving Train, a powerful memoir of his life and political activism, and A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, a history written from the standpoint of those who have been marginalized politically and economically and whose struggles have been largely omitted from most histories.

Howard Zinn Bio and Cross Links