Explanation:

At a seminar on “Azadi-The Only Way” in Delhi on October 21,2010 Arundhati Roy is reported to have said, inter alia: 

“India needs Azadi from Kashmir and Kashmir from India. It is a good debate that has started. We must deepen this conversation and am happy that young people are getting involved for this cause which is their future. Indian Government is a hollow super power and I disassociate with it,” Roy said.

“Earlier we used to talk about our head held high and now we lay prostrate to the US,” she added.

Referring to one of her earlier writings, Roy mentioned that Kashmiris have to decide whether they want to be with or get separated from an India where more than 830 million people live on Rs 20 per day only”.