A friend found this on a Tolkien newsgroup(?) & passed it on, with the message:
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A great read.
6000 words.
Worth it.
Read and spread.
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Haven't run into Tolkien group - there are nearly 200 hits on Google, of which these
are a few. Some include the chat beforehand, others just the text of the talk, one
also includes question & answer session following the talk. Apparently published first
in the Friday Times, Pakistan, Sep 27 -Oct 3, 2002.

(About & Other stuff by A Roy - see
http://www.artistsnetwork.org/artists/aroy.html)

Come September - Arundhati Roy
http://www.oz.net/~vvawai/wot/ComeSeptember.html
www.doccentre.org/TOD/Roy-come-sept.htm
http://www.artistsnetwork.org/news6/news260.html
www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=2404

( or printer-style version at
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=2404§ionID=40 )

This one, from an islamic website, also includes question & answer session
following the talk.
http://gawaher.com/i2/index.php?act=ST&f=50&t=206&

http://www.lannan.org/_authors/roy/transcript.htm
This is the text of a lecture delivered on September 18, 2002 at the Lannan
Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States.
[permalink][comment] - posted by Mez @ 1/09/2003 02:21:00 pm