Arundhati Roy at Seattle Town Hall

It was a captivating lecture! Arundhati Roy went to the same school as I did - Lawrence School, Lovedale. Given that we Lawrencians hail her as our famous alumni I had to ask her - "What was your experience at Lawrence? Did it have any influence on your work? Her response smiling - "I actually hated it out there... Hmmm (trying to be polite) I guess it must have had some sort of influence"... So there you have it oldlaws - that's why she never mentions Lawrence :)

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We are delighted and honored to again help present one of the most vital, arresting writers at work in the world today, Arundhati Roy. The Booker Prize-winning author of the 1997 novel, The God of Small Things, and the author, since, of a series of compelling, political non-fiction books, it is with the most recent of these, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers (Haymarket Books), that she visits Seattle this evening. "After so much celebratory salesmanship about India the 'emerging market,' Roy draws us into India the actual country, peeling away the gloss until we are confronted with perhaps the most challenging question of our time: who and what are we willing to sacrifice in the name of development? Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time." - Naomi Klein. "Arundhati Roy, the direct descendant of Antigone, resists and denounces all tyrannies, pleads for their victims, and unflinchingly questions the tragic. Reflect with her on the questions she receives from the political world today."