When Arundhati Roy first graced the pages of Outlook in 1998, she was already a household name, shielded by the global shimmer of a Booker Prize for The God of Small Things. Yet, rather than retreating into the comfortable silence of literary stardom, she chose a path of “indefensible silence.” Twenty-eight years later, Roy has transitioned from a novelist of intricate, lace-like sentences to the country’s most formidable moral compass—a writer whose life has become as much of a public