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Arundhati Roy awarded 45th European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement

Writer-activist Arundhati Roy has been awarded the prestigious 45th European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement for the French translation of her book 'Azadi'. The news was announced recently by the Charles Veillon Foundation.

The Times of India · Jul 4, 2023

Writer Arundhati Roy receives European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement

Writer Arundhati Roy has been awarded the 45th European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement, the Charles Veillon Foundation has announced.

The Hindu · Jun 16, 2023

Navamalayali Cultural prize for Arundhati Roy

Eminent writer Arundhati Roy has been selected for the fifth Navamalayali Cultural prize instituted by the online magazine Navamalayali.

The Hindu · Jun 10, 2023

Arundhati Roy flags signs of fascism in India, says it is aided by corporate funding

Writer Arundhati Roy dissects Hindutva fascism; says key question to ask is what makes people revere a person that is humiliating them

The Hindu · Oct 9, 2022

We are like a plane flying backwards, says Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy, writer and activist delivered the Gauri Lankesh Memorial Lecture in Bengaluru

The Hindu · Sep 5, 2022

Mary Roy, educator and champion of women’s rights, passes away

Mary Roy, mother of renowned writer Arundhati Roy, fought a 39-year-long legal battle to gain equal access to the property of her deceased father that led to a landmark Supreme Court judgement against the archaic Travencore Christian Succession Act of 1916

The Hindu · Sep 1, 2022

At 75, India’s democracy is under pressure like never before

Since its independence in 1947, India has transformed from a poverty-stricken nation into one of the world's fastest-growing economies

The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2022

India of today ‘like plane flying backwards, headed for a crash’, says Arundhati Roy

The Booker prize winner was speaking during the launch of the book 'Why do you fear my way so much?', a selection of poems and letters by jailed human rights activist G.N. Saibaba

The Hindu · May 5, 2022

‘Where is Najeeb?’: Three years after JNU student’s disappearance, Jantar Mantar protest demands answers

To mark three years of the disappearance of the Jawaharlal Nehru University student Najeeb Ahmed and return attention to the case, the campaign group United Against Hate organised a protest march at Jantar Mantar, Delhi on October 15.

Newslaundry · Oct 17, 2019

Top 12 fake news stories circulated by mainstream media in 2017

2017 will go down as another year that saw a steady decline of trust and confidence in the media. It was a year when mainstream media gave tough competition to social media in originating and circulating fake news.

Newslaundry · Jan 2, 2018