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It was herself she was exhausted by. She had lost the ability to keep her discrete worlds discrete — a skill that many consider to be the cornerstone… - Arundhati Roy
" "It was herself she was exhausted by. She had lost the ability to keep her discrete worlds discrete — a skill that many consider to be the cornerstone of sanity. The traffic inside her head seemed to have stopped believing in traffic lights. The result was incessant noise, a few bad crashes and eventually gridlock.
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About Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian writer and social activist
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Suzanna Arundhati Roy
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The first step towards reimagining a world gone terribly wrong would be to stop the annihilation of those who have a different imagination–an imagination that is outside of capitalism as well as communism. An imagination which has an altogether different understanding of what constitutes happiness and fulfilment. To gain this philosophical space, it is necessary to concede some physical space for survival of those who may look like the keepers of our past but who may really be the guides to our future. To do this, we have to ask our rulers: Can you leave the water in the rivers, the trees in the forest? Can you leave the bauxite in the mountain?
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