Arundhati Roy

Booker-winning author and political activist · age 64

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Roy backs India's youth-led 'Cockroach' protest movement in interviews

In late July 2026 interviews with Democracy Now and PRX's The World, Roy discussed a youth-led protest movement in India sparked by exam-paper leaks and unemployment. She described the movement's use of humour and satire and characterised it as the most significant challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in years.

source: Democracy Now!· The World (PRX)

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Roy's 1989 screenwriting debut returns in 4K restoration at London Indian Film Festival

A 4K restoration of In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, the 1989 film Roy wrote and acted in as an architecture student, received a UK premiere at BFI Southbank on 15 July 2026 as part of the London Indian Film Festival. Apollo Magazine framed the little-seen film as an origin story for Roy's later career as an activist-novelist.

source: Apollo Magazine

Reviewed August 23, 2026