War Is Peace

by Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, Harold Pinter

Book by Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, Johan Galtung, Harold Pinter, Achin Vanaik, Steve Boggin, Michael Barratt Brown, Tony Simpson, Ken Coates, Pamela White

96 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2001

About the author

Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays.

For her work as an activist she received the Cultural Freedom Prize awarded by the Lannan Foundation in 2002.

Reviews

[Kislay Verma · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Like other means of violence, it's (terrorism) primarily a weapon of the strong, overwhelmingly, in fact. It is held to be a weapon of the weak because the strong also control the doctrinal systems and their terror does not count as terror"