“This portrait of Indian activist and writer Arundhati Roy was published alongside a review of her newest novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. The illustration depicts three causes she fought for. Inside her figure are the Naxalists she marched through the jungle with and the villages flooded by the government’s dams, and she sits in the Pokhran desert nuclear testing site as a reference to her opposition of India’s nuclear activity. I got to meet her briefly at a book signing, where she said that she had seen the portrait and was surprised to meet the artist who made it. She seemed pleased with it!”