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Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.
Jul 8, 2024 · Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961, Shillong, Meghalaya, India) is an Indian author and political activist who is best known for the award-winning novel The God of Small Things (1997) and for her involvement in environmental and human rights causes, which resulted in various legal problems.
Jun 18, 2024 · Last week, 14 years after the original complaint, Delhi's most senior official granted permission for the Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted under India’s stringent anti...
5 days ago · I WAS 10 YEARS OLD when Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize for The God of Small Things. It had a special significance for me because I studied in the school founded by her mother, and where she herself had studied. In a way, I felt like I had a claim over her. She was mine before she was the world’s. As a kid, Roy was my idol. If I couldn’t be her, I wanted to be like her. I wanted to dress like her, walk like her, talk like her….
The God of Small Things is a family drama novel written by Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" prevalent in 1960s Kerala, India.
Arundhati Roy was born in 1960 in Kerala, India. She studied architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture and worked as a production designer. She has written two screenplays, including Electric Moon (1992), commissioned by Channel 4 television.
Mar 5, 2014 · Written in 1936 by B. R. Ambedkar, the progressive leader who drafted the Indian Constitution and converted to Buddhism, the essay is perhaps the most famous modern-day attack on India’s caste...
Oct 11, 2023 · The Indian authorities have charged the renowned novelist Arundhati Roy over public comments she made 13 years ago about the restive Kashmir region, the latest step in an intensifying crackdown...
Feb 9, 2013 · Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays.
Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and has been translated into more than 40 languages. She also wrote The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize 2017.
