Invited to speak at the Munich Literature Festival, Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy cannot travel to Germany as she faces charges in India over comments she made in 2010. Indian author Arundhati Roy was invited to give the opening speech at the Munich Literature Festival, which takes place from November 15 to December 3. In the essay, Roy highlighted the plight of tribal communities whose villages would submerge once the dam was constructed. Two decades after her first novel, "The God of Small Things," Roy published her second fictional work, "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness," in 2017. The political 'conscience'Meanwhile, Roy seems to have claimed the genre of political essay-writing as her own.

Source: The Guardian November 14, 2023 12:05 UTC