Arundhati Roy about global politics

Tim Adams speaks to former Booker prize winner Arundhathi Roy: 'What's exciting is that writing has become a weapon' | Books | The Observer: "Since winning the Booker prize in 1997, Arundhati Roy has put fiction on hold to become a global dissenter against repression, economic 'progress' - and dams. Tim Adams discovers the roots of her political passion

I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class - they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country."