I grew up in a little village in Kerala. It was a nightmare for me. All I wanted … - Arundhati Roy

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How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.

Arundhati Roy

I grew up in a little village in Kerala. It was a nightmare for me. All I wanted to do was to escape, to get out, to never have to marry somebody there. Of course, they were not dying to marry me. I was the worst thing a girl could be: thin, black, and clever.

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