Arundhati Roy talks to Nicola Sturgeon at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

What did Arundhati Roy do between the publication of her Booker-winning debut The God of Small Things in 1997 and her extraordinary follow-up, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness two decades later? In a stunning new book of essays, we have the definitive answer. My Seditious Heart is much more than a series of illuminating observations on justice, rights and freedoms: it’s a memoir of the Indian author’s life - as a writer and as a citizen. Roy discusses her novels, her essays and her astonishing experiences with Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon in this event, filmed live at Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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  • @khoobsuratthings
    @khoobsuratthings Жыл бұрын

    There shouldn't ever be a dislike option where The great Arundhati Roy speaks. It is always a divine experience to hear her say and reveal things about India and World. She is formidable and most respectable in every way every form.

  • @raghavsharma96
    @raghavsharma964 жыл бұрын

    What a beautiful, talented soul she is. India will one day wake up to her, and realise the Kohinoor that had lived amongst us.

  • @camelpissdrinkernabimuhamm6611

    @camelpissdrinkernabimuhamm6611

    4 жыл бұрын

    She's unhappy because india is stable under modi.

  • @veteranas5564

    @veteranas5564

    4 жыл бұрын

    Raghav Sharma - it seems you are totally disconnected with India’s reality. This “Kohinoor” is despised by most Indians. If Scotland wants this piece they can have her. Most of us out here would be happy to see her go.

  • @invisiblearchives3713

    @invisiblearchives3713

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@camelpissdrinkernabimuhamm6611 fascists love stability. It gives them false credibility

  • @lunaridge4510

    @lunaridge4510

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@invisiblearchives3713 it fills their wallets too, while the ppl work themselves to death

  • @tmb09177
    @tmb091774 жыл бұрын

    For those who don’t know, the interviewer is Scotland’s Prime (First) Minister. Never can this happen in India, can it ?

  • @ramraghuwanshi2562

    @ramraghuwanshi2562

    4 жыл бұрын

    No.. We don't give this much respect to left loonies

  • @myblueandme

    @myblueandme

    4 жыл бұрын

    Why copy them. Our 2nd Prime minister Shastri lived a very simple life and never used a car as a prime minister for his personal work. Never can happen in Scotland, can it ?

  • @ramraghuwanshi2562

    @ramraghuwanshi2562

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@drkendel7506 left loonies like arundhati r also mass murder just that they murder by pen by advocating naxals... So,yes new india don't give respect to mass murdered left loonies like roy

  • @sennecawise7899

    @sennecawise7899

    4 жыл бұрын

    No it cant, because idiot modi doesn't even allow press conferences. Fascists don't allowe freedom of speeach.

  • @sennecawise7899

    @sennecawise7899

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ramraghuwanshi2562 your PM, President and Supreme courtheads are fascists. They are all RSS. You should all be ashamed of your governemnt and your leaders, you are Nazis,the RSS openely in thier writings say they want to be like Nazi and Fascists. Who are you to even have say anything about Arundathi Roy? She's one the best things about India.

  • @peaceonearth9558
    @peaceonearth95584 жыл бұрын

    MAY GOD BLESS YOU WITH HEALTH AND PEACE MA'AM

  • @binanatha9301
    @binanatha93014 жыл бұрын

    Wat a wonderful woman

  • @basavla1811

    @basavla1811

    4 жыл бұрын

    Idiot

  • @jayeshpatel7045

    @jayeshpatel7045

    4 жыл бұрын

    And Arundhati isn't too bad either.

  • @NG-dc2pk

    @NG-dc2pk

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@atskj9996 nobody takes her seriously because bhogi adityanath fan can't read and think 😂😂

  • @sennecawise7899
    @sennecawise78994 жыл бұрын

    Absolutele legend, Roy is awesome. Sturgeon is better than I thought.

  • @sennecawise7899

    @sennecawise7899

    4 жыл бұрын

    @David Rath you do know the Vedic people also invaded India, and displaced harrapan culture . There is no pure India or pure hindusim, even that came from outside and mixed with the tradtions present in india 1000s years ago. And a lot of adivasi are not even vedic. The RSS mix and conflate mythology and history. Sicne they are Nazis, the greatest threat India is facing is losing the best aspect of the vedic culture as Nazi RSS and reintrepreting it. The RSS were happy with the British empire and wanted to share power with them. So do us a favour and stop spreading nazi RSS filth. The word knows, they just tolereate india as an extremely cheap labour. markets. Jai bhim.

  • @sennecawise7899

    @sennecawise7899

    4 жыл бұрын

    @David Rath its not actually, its a fact. Humans migrate all.the time and create new cultures languages and religions. If you are a RSS nazi, then obviusly you will say this. As your has been distorted by RSS distorians. Go and read the fucking founders of your nazi movement, they openly praise fascists and nazis and apply thr model to hindu identity poltiics. All humans have the the same origin, RSS nazis like to think they are superior.... what a joke.

  • @sennecawise7899

    @sennecawise7899

    4 жыл бұрын

    @David Rath so you are also anti semitic now, thanks for showing us that the RSS followers and the BjP are Nazis and agaisnt anything else but thier shitty caste system poltiics and brahmin supremacy. Fuck u nazi. Jai Bhim.

  • @sennecawise7899

    @sennecawise7899

    4 жыл бұрын

    @David Rath diversity ? This is coming from a RSS apllogist🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @sennecawise7899

    @sennecawise7899

    4 жыл бұрын

    @David Rath dude i have a fuckin PhD in anthropology and lead a great department from the US to Australia to china, who the fuck are you?

  • @azadrasheed497
    @azadrasheed4974 жыл бұрын

    Arundhati Roy, Nicola Sturgeon, Jacinda Ardern,Sanna Marin,all awarded gold medals from me. Lead medals to Trump,Modi,MBS, Sisi, Netanyahu Mileikowsky,Gen Gantz.

  • @OmarAhmad007
    @OmarAhmad0074 жыл бұрын

    I am here to introduce the Intelligent, Beautiful, Wonderful and Brave, Arundhati Roy... ❤️ #SundayThoughts 💭 #SunChat ☎️ #SundayMotivation 🏌️‍♂️

  • @navyindian2080
    @navyindian20804 жыл бұрын

    Honorable Arundhati Roy is a fine Writer. She is a brave Lady and a Tue Warrior for Human Rights and democracy. She is fighting for the Right of Weak and Common Man of India. God Bless Her. She is my Hero. Jai Hind

  • @AbdulKhader-786
    @AbdulKhader-7864 жыл бұрын

    She looks great in sari

  • @roshan3907
    @roshan39074 жыл бұрын

    great writer

  • @azadrasheed497
    @azadrasheed4974 жыл бұрын

    Tamils,Kerala,& most of South India,& various people of North India were never ruled by the Rulers of Delhi.

  • @jubairahmad6024
    @jubairahmad60244 жыл бұрын

    Great writer

  • @kmariammm9504
    @kmariammm95044 жыл бұрын

    I am a fan The God of Small Things this Title gives me some energy i cant explain i want to meet Arundhati Roy God please help me meet MADONNA AS well two Different legends INDIA has too much talented people i m an abandond neighbour

  • @sxrewyooo8072

    @sxrewyooo8072

    4 жыл бұрын

    How a neighbour?

  • @RashmikaLikesBooks
    @RashmikaLikesBooks4 жыл бұрын

    Starts around 2:23

  • @nevergiveup7804
    @nevergiveup78044 жыл бұрын

    Luv u mom

  • @ellenhair6847
    @ellenhair68473 жыл бұрын

    A Roy tells it as it is. The phenomenon of the BJP in India and populism in general is a pernicious influence across many so called democratic countries. However , India has more minorities to pick on and they are scapegoated with this idea that Hindus somehow equate the nation. Visiting the south of the country over a 10 year span I had many discussions with Christians who felt persecuted and alienated by the ideology. Their fear was palpable and I imagine the same goes for the many other minorities mentioned in the threads of this email. Also not all Hindus go along with this, they find it reprehensible too. Many lessons being learned from the arch populist Donald Trump who never let the truth stand in the way of a good story.

  • @KS-jr3ko
    @KS-jr3ko4 жыл бұрын

    I get a sadist pleasure watching this woman crib and cry in every international forum

  • @ramraghuwanshi2562

    @ramraghuwanshi2562

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same here

  • @highpriest8571

    @highpriest8571

    4 жыл бұрын

    cause your bitch made

  • @ammy515

    @ammy515

    4 жыл бұрын

    Saying truth is not crying.. Yes u may cry after hearing truth

  • @irillion

    @irillion

    3 жыл бұрын

    I suspect you also "get a sadist pleasure" at the disgusting violent shit the BJP perpetrates against oppressed minorities. You know what gave me "a sadist pleasure"? Watching the BJP get their pathetic asses kicked in WB, despite having Modi basically going door-to-door begging for votes.

  • @DIP4K
    @DIP4K2 жыл бұрын

    I don’t agree with AR on a number of subjects which I can’t be bothered to mention and avoid an offensive debate … However, that doesn’t mean I don’t admire her and infact; think she’s insightful on soo many levels … I would love for her to do a project with Nawazudin Siddiqui 🙏🏽

  • @ambat7960
    @ambat79602 жыл бұрын

    I rather support people who are working on the ground to make change happen than people who like to frame beautiful words on misery.

  • @theAlchemisttutor
    @theAlchemisttutor4 жыл бұрын

    What a pleasure listening to such beautiful ladies.

  • @AbdulKhader-786
    @AbdulKhader-7864 жыл бұрын

    Indian women r beautiful at every age

  • @bhairaviprasad9356
    @bhairaviprasad93562 жыл бұрын

    I have read God of small things. It was the beginning of my awaking to realise the regressive, harmful and utterly enslaving culture in India we are brought up in. That shame and control in our culture affects us mentally and physically. She was the beginning to my search for my personal freedom. Because believe me we are mentally enslaved in our country. What to eat, who to pray to, what to wear, what to study and even who to love. The caste system is a systemic social structure in our culture that is explicitly killing and dividing us and putting us behind from growing every day. It is a threat to our freedom and growth. And it perpetuates inequality and injustice every minute. It is a fact that the social prevalence of caste system is the first and foremost issue in our country.

  • @FiFamAsh
    @FiFamAsh4 жыл бұрын

    15:35 THe language is called " Malayalam" , not Malelan

  • @crossroads485
    @crossroads4853 жыл бұрын

    She made my day. "Fuck you" so spot on.

  • @ANKITPANDEY-vm8kx
    @ANKITPANDEY-vm8kx4 жыл бұрын

    A lot of Indian Far Right losers tripping on Arundhati's statement of how 'Pakistan has not deployed army against its "own people" the way the Indian State has' goes to show the lack of knowledge and basic intellect of people these days..Bangladeshis and Indians should meticulously read her books in their entirety. Her deep insights and revolutionary ideas should be taken in serious thought.. But Alas, India, Pakistan and probably Bangladesh (and so many other countries) are on a race to self-destruction.. Vive la Roy... Vive la Revolution.

  • @mohsinraza3712
    @mohsinraza37124 жыл бұрын

    God bless her

  • @rizwansafdar4509
    @rizwansafdar45093 жыл бұрын

    I want your autograph Pliz

  • @dubailettingsmanagement3046
    @dubailettingsmanagement30464 жыл бұрын

    She is 100% right about modern India and PM Modi’s racism and violent fascism towards minorities. Western Leaders should boycott and distance themselves from Modi. He is a authoritarian tyrannical leader persecuting minorities in detention centres, and ordering night raids. In fact he should be tried for the Gujarat massacre of 2002.

  • @anshumanjaiswal5787

    @anshumanjaiswal5787

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol . Western leaders are themselves responsible for killing millions during imperlist rule . Anc why distance from modi when there is no problem with xi xinping?

  • @mazumdar2379
    @mazumdar23796 ай бұрын

    ওকে

  • @SuperAbebaby
    @SuperAbebaby3 жыл бұрын

    Go B and live in Arabia and talk about the rulers there ,or pakistan

  • @SuperAbebaby
    @SuperAbebaby3 жыл бұрын

    WHat Honor ? Oh Ya Alice in wonderland ,what a feminine low voice !!!

  • @Travelwithsushen
    @TravelwithsushenАй бұрын

    Going to jail soon 😂 Karma has shown it's action

  • @rc2k22
    @rc2k224 жыл бұрын

    A Literature writer has very little understanding of politics, and Politicians have very little understanding on literature, and both must focus only on things that they are good at. Trying to put in on other's shoes can unnecessarily complicate, simple matters.

  • @highpriest8571

    @highpriest8571

    4 жыл бұрын

    you have neither

  • @rc2k22

    @rc2k22

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@highpriest8571 How sweet 🙏🙏

  • @nikitamaheshwary

    @nikitamaheshwary

    4 жыл бұрын

    Read her books,or atleast hear THIS talk! Her writing is political and literally an archiving of past 30 years of the ‘emerging’ India. The politician being equally sensitive and asking questions unearthing the writings.

  • @azadrasheed497

    @azadrasheed497

    4 жыл бұрын

    Arundhati Roy,Salman Rushdie, a tribute to India. Both writers are disliked by their Establishment. Why?

  • @NG-dc2pk

    @NG-dc2pk

    3 жыл бұрын

    You have no knowledge at all , and commenting creates unnecessary complications on all sides

  • @nishantsharma006
    @nishantsharma0064 жыл бұрын

    She is an idealist. We need to have such people in all countries. But I would also say that we cannot have an ideal world. We cannot not have Atomic bombs when US, Britain, Pakistan, Russia, China have them. We cannot not have a defensive Hindu organization till the time Christianity and Islam have it. And I think she is exaggerating the remarks over Kashmir. I am from Delhi and I condemn such cheap remarks about Kashmiri girls. She is picking a very negligible niche of India and making a huge deal of it.

  • @irillion

    @irillion

    3 жыл бұрын

    Except that a defensive Hindu organization isn't necessary in a country that today is institutionally Hindu supremacist, with Muslims, oppressed castes and religious minorities all institutionally discriminated against. It would be like having a "white defense organisation" in America... oh wait actually they did have one didn't they - the name slips my mind, I think it began with a K?

  • @subhanhasan990tsikfm

    @subhanhasan990tsikfm

    3 жыл бұрын

    Niche? Dont lie to yourself

  • @ok9gamer65
    @ok9gamer653 жыл бұрын

    Everything she says is subjective without much factual backing. when questioned about facts, most of her answers start with 'if you see'. She has made her life and career out of speaking ill about her own in every global platform she has been while praising its undemocratic neighbours. She is communist intellectual who sees india as an oppessor. She wud be very happy to see india disintegrate into 300 princely state. She cannot bear the fact that India is being taken seriously in global geopolitics. She has been this way in any government, she spoke agains india during congress time also. She suffers from some childhood psychological trauma as her parents were separated and she may have faced some social problems in a conservative malyali neighbourhood where she was raised by her single mother. She blames the INDIA for that trauma, thats the core nature of socialism, they manage to blame anything for their problems. Com on Arundhati, grow the fuck up, we all have faced problems in childhood, some were bullied, some faced corporal punishment, some were abused.... DON'T BLAME THE INIDAN STATE FOR THAT.

  • @andrefurtado6728

    @andrefurtado6728

    3 жыл бұрын

    She is not a communist intellectual. She speaks truth to power and condemns empire no matter where it is in the world. She has castigated Britain, the US, the Congress and the BJP without. playing any favorites. She is an idealist and while her desired world may not be realized ,she tells us what direction we need to move in. Brilliant and sensitive scholar and says her stuff calmly not like the RSS and BJP maniacs who get into a frenzy when talking about her and about Hindutva.

  • @myblueandme
    @myblueandme4 жыл бұрын

    Its like Osama bin Laden speaking in behalf of USA

  • @chris_anon88

    @chris_anon88

    4 жыл бұрын

    Twat

  • @SM-hr4zl

    @SM-hr4zl

    4 жыл бұрын

    @myblueandme You are an idiot!

  • @basavla1811

    @basavla1811

    4 жыл бұрын

    S Murthy No, you are,who like to demonise your own through exaggerated lies,and conveniently forget to tell the whole truth

  • @SM-hr4zl

    @SM-hr4zl

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@basavla1811 Nonsense. It is the Hindu nationalists/fascists who try to silence their opponents with violence and intimidation. I posted in this thread because @myblueandme compared Arundhati Roy to Osama bin Laden, which is preposterous. She is arguing and campaigning for social justice and equality for the oppressed and the downtrodden in India, who are largely the lower castes. Throughout her entire adult life she has sough to highlight the burning issues of caste discrimination, inequality and rampant violence against women and minorities in India. How can she be compared to Osama bin Laden? Where are her bombs and bullets and victims?

  • @myblueandme

    @myblueandme

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@SM-hr4zl And you are a Naxal

  • @souvik9463
    @souvik94634 жыл бұрын

    She promot extrim(Naxalite) mentality in INDIA.

  • @ykd0011
    @ykd00114 жыл бұрын

    If india's so far right don't do anything for 2 days, india would be taken over by this anti-nationals. And that we cant let happen, it is our duty to bring back indias that glory which existed from the beginning of civilization till 1000 years before today. Lets do it. Nation needs us. Jai hind 🇮🇳

  • @afzalhussain2411

    @afzalhussain2411

    4 жыл бұрын

    Aryan Blood India is dying the Zionist are soon going to be the masters

  • @andrefurtado6728

    @andrefurtado6728

    3 жыл бұрын

    That is what Hitler said about the Jews, that they were anti-nationalists.

  • @ykd0011

    @ykd0011

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@andrefurtado6728 He was right. Why would they be nationalist for german people's country! They were foreigners.

  • @irillion

    @irillion

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂 I hate to break it to you but ancient India wasn't the weird homogenous Hindu ethnostate paradise you fantasise about, it was home to multiple complex civilisations with, among other things, cultural exchange between different religions and communities, nuanced attitudes to sex and gender and subversive art. Oppression and supremacism I'm sure existed then too, but so did pluralism, exploration of challenging ideas and multicultural societies - i.e. the stuff you and your heroes try to stamp out in modern India. Well sweetheart too bad history doesn't change to fit your hateful little feelings.

  • @ykd0011

    @ykd0011

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@irillion i think you are confused between just few century old and ancient. When i said ancient, i didn't meant recent. There were not any other riligions in ancient times. They are invented recently.

  • @kamalrawat5652
    @kamalrawat56524 жыл бұрын

    She is just a fool!

  • @SM-hr4zl

    @SM-hr4zl

    4 жыл бұрын

    She is a great writer. You are the fool!

  • @SM-hr4zl

    @SM-hr4zl

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Akash I don't argue with fucking idiots. Go and get a brain or an education.

  • @kmariammm9504

    @kmariammm9504

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yr a fool yr self ok

  • @afzalhussain2411

    @afzalhussain2411

    4 жыл бұрын

    Renato Laranja you are blinded by your own stink that is coming from deep within you

  • @SM-hr4zl

    @SM-hr4zl

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Renato Laranja What a remarkable mind you have!

  • @vigneshv1516
    @vigneshv15164 жыл бұрын

    Arundhati motharma prathyaksh 😂😂 puthani character. Bundle of lies lady. Abhi is time encash karna agayi. Desh me bhi kuch kalank hothe he, vus me ye character bhi ek.

  • @rickbiswas1368
    @rickbiswas13684 жыл бұрын

    Worst writer arundhati... tukre tukre gang k buddhijibi....