Arundhati Roy on what dissent has cost her personally | BBC News India

Arundhati Roy is one of India’s best-known writers and one of its most distinctive public voices. Her debut novel, the God of Small Things, won the Booker Prize in 1997 and made her a global literary names. Nearly three decades later, her new memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me, looks inward at her mother, her childhood and the experiences that shaped her. Over the years, Roy has also written extensively on democracy, inequality, conflict, nationalism and the politics of power. She speaks to the BBC’s Ishadrita Lahiri on her difficult childhood, how it shape… Video by YouTube channel.