There’s a character in Anuradha Roy’s novel ‘Sleeping on Jupiter’. He’s mad, has no money, sleeps wherever he can find shelter. He cultivates a twig, plants it in the sand by the ocean, waters it with seawater, moves it to higher ground when the tide comes in and waves threaten his ‘plant’. And then there’s…
Category: Roy, Anuradha
… indiscriminately distributed
‘But Johnny Topo now had other customers and was asking if they wanted the sweet biscuits or the salty ones in exactly the tones he had put those questions to Latika and Gouri. Latika turned away, disappointed that his voice was so indiscriminately distributed. Her discontent returned and she wished again that her tea were…
Anuradha Roy interview, ‘The Rumpus’ (Aug 2022)
For some reason, I found myself looking up the name ‘Arundhati Roy’, winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 for her novel The God of Small Things—and came across another name, that of Anuradha Roy. Damn webpage, I thought, can’t even spell. It wasn’t till…. Ok, completely different individual, my bad. And…