Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq – mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods – are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs.
Ngayinye yezingane zase-Iraqi ezabulawa yi-United States yayiyingane yethu. Isiboshwa ngasinye sahlukunyezwa...
U-Arundhati Roy (owazalwa ngoNovemba 24, 1961) ungumbhali wezincwadi waseNdiya, isishoshovu kanye nesakhamuzi somhlaba. Uzuze uMklomelo kaBooker ngo-1997 ngenoveli yakhe yokuqala ethi UNkulunkulu Wezinto Ezincane. URoy wazalelwa eShillong, eMeghalaya kumama ongumKristu waseKeralite waseSyria kanye nobaba ongumHindu ongumBengali, owayengumlimi wetiye ngomsebenzi. Ubuntwana bakhe wabuchitha e-Aymanam, eKerala, efunda eCorpus Christi. Wasuka eKerala waya eDelhi eneminyaka engu-16 ubudala, waqala impilo yokungabi nakhaya, ehlala endlini encane enophahla lukathayela phakathi kwezindonga zeFeroz Shah Kotla yaseDelhi futhi eziphilisa ngokuthengisa amabhodlela angenalutho. Wabe eseqhubeka nokufundela ukwakha eDelhi School of Architecture, lapho ahlangana khona nomyeni wakhe wokuqala, umakhi uGerard Da Cunha.UNkulunkulu Wezinto Ezincane ukuphela kwenoveli eyabhalwa uRoy. Selokhu awina uMklomelo kaBooker, usegxile kakhulu ekubhaleni kwakhe ezindabeni zezepolitiki. Lokhu kuhlanganisa iphrojekthi yeDamu laseNarmada, Izikhali Zenuzi zaseNdiya, imisebenzi yenkampani esebenza ngogesi eyonakele i-Enron e-India. Uyinhloko yenhlangano emelene neglobalization/alter-globalization futhi ungumgxeki kakhulu we-neo-imperialism.Ephendula ukuhlolwa kwe-India kwezikhali zenuzi ePokhran, eRajasthan, uRoy wabhala i-End of Imagination, i-critique yamaNdiya. izinqubomgomo zenuzi zikahulumeni. Ishicilelwe eqoqweni lakhe elithi The Cost of Living, lapho aphinde aphikisana namaphrojekthi amakhulu aseNdiya aphehla ugesi ngamanzi ezifundazweni ezimaphakathi nentshonalanga yeMaharashtra, Madhya Pradesh naseGujarat. Kusukela ngaleso sikhathi uzinikele kuphela ekukhulumeni okungelona iqiniso nakwezombangazwe, eshicilela amaqoqo amabili engeziwe ezindatshana kanye nokusebenzela izizathu zezenhlalo. URoy waklonyeliswa ngendondo ye-Sydney Peace Prize ngoMeyi 2004 ngomsebenzi wakhe emikhankasweni yezenhlalo kanye nokumela ukungabi nodlame.NgoJuni. Ngo-2005 wabamba iqhaza kwi-World Tribunal yase-Iraq. NgoJanuwari 2006 waklonyeliswa ngendondo ye-Sahitya Akademi ngeqoqo lakhe lezindatshana, 'I-Algebra Yokulunga Okungapheli', kodwa wenqaba ukuyamukela.