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Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India, [8] to Mary Roy, a Malayali Jacobite Syrian Christian women's rights activist from Kerala and Rajib Roy, a Bengali Brahmo Samaji [9] tea plantation manager from Kolkata. [10] She has denied false rumors about her being a Brahmin by caste. [9]
Arundhati Roy. 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. The novel explores how small, seemingly insignificant occurrences, decisions and experiences shape ...
978-0-14-312059-9. Walking with the Comrades (2011) is an eyewitness account of the Naxalite–Maoist insurgency by Indian author Arundhati Roy. The book covers her time in 2010 spent living with Naxalite communist guerillas deep within the forests of rural Chhattisgarh. [1] She argues that India's counter-insurgency, known as Operation Green ...
The Algebra of Infinite Justice is a fitting example. It contains the best of Arundhati Roy’s political writings. Roy was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in English for this work, but refused it citing her opposition to policies of the Indian government. Editions. ISBN 0-14-302907-X (Penguin India) ISBN 0-00-714949-2 (Harper Collins)
A sarcophagus discovered in 2009 in the burial chamber of an Egyptian high priest was originally from the tomb of pharaoh Ramesses II, according to a new study.
Indian author Arundhati Roy has won the PEN Pinter prize set up in 2009 in memory of Nobel laureate Harold Pinter. The award comes two weeks after capital Delhi’s lieutenant governor VK Saxena ...
Arundhati Roy is a Booker prize-winning author and an outspoken activist [Getty Images] Indian author Arundhati Roy has said that she is "delighted" to have been awarded this year's PEN Pinter ...
Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy (2009) is a collection of essays written by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy. Written between 2002 and 2008, the essays have been published in various left-leaning newspapers and magazines in India. The first edition of the book consists of eleven essays with an introduction by Roy was ...