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Book Review: All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy – By George Somasundaram Image Source : facebook Source : Dæhæna – March 2024 Anuradha Roy, the author of “All the Lives we never lived” is a successful Indian novelist. This book is her fourth (published in 2018) hot on the heels of the highly acclaimed “Sleeping on Jupiter”. She and husband Rukun Advani reside in Ranikhet, in the foothills of the Himalayas, having founded “Permanent Black”, a publishing company focused on academic literature. ‘In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run-off with an Englishman. The man was in fact a German, but in a small town in India in those days, all white foreigners were largely thought to be British’. Thus begins “All the Lives we never lived”, set around the time of the fight for Indian Independence and World War 2. The beautifully written ...

Arundhati Roy draws the Indian Government’s Ire – By Michael Roberts AFP News Item in The GUARDIAN, 11 October 2023 The Booker prize-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy could be prosecuted for a 2010 speech about Kashmir after a top official signed off on the move, according to reports in India. Roy, 61, is one of India’s most famous living authors but her writing and activism, including her criticism of the prime minister Narendra Modi’s government, have made her a polarising figure in the country. A criminal complaint accusing her and several others of sedition had languished in India’s notoriously glacial criminal justice system since it was filed in 2010. But on Tuesday, Indian media reported that VK Saxena, the top official in the administration governing Delhi, had given approval for the case to proceed before the courts. Saxena’s directive said there was enough evidence for a case to take place against Roy ...