Arundhati Roy's latest release 'Shape of the Beast'

NEW MOVE: From a collection of political essays to now a collection of her interviews.

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New Delhi: Writer Arundhati Roy was in the Capital to release a collection of her interviews. In an exclusive chat with CNN-IBN she spoke about her social activism, her next novel and more.

“In India, people who are politically radical are socially conservative and those who are socially radical are politically conservative – and I'm torn between the two.”

That's writer Arundhati Roy balancing her involvement in social activism with her writing. Known as much as a booker prize winner as a voice of the displaced people of Narmada Bachao Andolan.

Roy has two non-fiction volumes of political essays to her credit but it's been more than a decade since her last dose of fiction ‘God of Small Things’ came out.

She says, “This journey of non-fiction had a momentum of its own. But now I’m trying to get back. I'm working on a book.”

But the reclusive writer quickly surfaces before she can let us peep into the storyline.

In the Capital for the release of a collection of her interviews from 2001 to 2008, titled ‘Shape of The Beast’, Arundhati Roy did have quite a few people awaiting her next novel.

“Like I confessed, I couldn’t get through the first book, but I still await her next book,” she adds.

From a collection of political essays to now a collection of her interviews. Fiction is still awaited.