Shattered language for a shattered world – Arundhati Roy on describing the female body in fiction & the politics of translation

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Shattered language for a shattered world – Arundhati Roy on mother tongues, describing the female body in fiction and the politics of translation. New Generation Thinker and novelist, Preti Taneja, talked to the Booker Prize winner, Arundhati Roy on the eve of her W G Sebald lecture at the British Library on Tuesday. She began their conversation by asking why Arundhati Roy had decided to collaborate on the Urdu and Hindi translations of her latest book, The Ministry of Utmost Happines -- the first time she’s been directly involved in this way even though her work has appeared in more than forty languages...