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title: "At a time when democratic values are ..."
date: 2021-04-13T00:00:00.000Z
author: Ricardo Mendes
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# At a time when democratic values are ...

At a time when democratic values are under siege in her home country of India, as they are elsewhere around the world, including in the U.S., Roy’s analysis of issues like nuclear weapons, industrialization, nationalism, and more is essential to this moment. She is unapologetic about the stakes. Once, when a historian criticized her for passionate rhetoric, she responded, “I am hysterical. I’m screaming from the bloody rooftops … I want to wake the neighbors. That’s my whole point. I want everybody to open their eyes.”  
[https://niemanreports.org/articles/arundhati-roy-we-live-in-an-age-of-mini-massacres/](https://niemanreports.org/articles/arundhati-roy-we-live-in-an-age-of-mini-massacres/)