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Arundhati Roy: There's no such thing as a perfect story

The author reads a beautiful passage from her essay The End of Imagination, a critique of India鈥檚 nuclear weapons programme written shortly after the Pokhran nuclear tests in 1998, and following the success of her debut novel The God of Small Things.

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