“Capitalism has become a weapon of mass destruction”: Seven questions with Arundhati Roy The prize-winning writer shares her thoughts on India, nationalism, literature and politics. Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction, last year; and a political activist. She’s also someone to whom her readers often turn to make sense of things, whether that's politics in India, where she lives; globalisation; or the coronavirus pandemic. Roy has written on all these subjects with a moral clarity and sense of purpose. Perhaps it is more accurate to say she wears one hat – that of a person who tries to clearly articulate what she sees happening in the world around her – in a variety of ways.