Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’ | Free to read | Financial Times

Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’ | Free to read  | Financial Times

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“[The pandemic] is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.”

Novelist Arundhati Roy thinks deeply about what COVID-19 is doing to India, and to the world. (The Financial Times | 13 min read)