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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]
A top Indian official has allowed the prosecution of celebrated Indian author Arundhati Roy, ... Even at the time of the event, which took place under the previous Congress government, the ...
Indian writer Arundhati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter prize, two weeks after Indian authorities approved legal action over political comments she made 14 years ago. The novelist said she is ...
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 ...
Booker Prize-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy could be prosecuted for allegedly seditious comments made over a decade ago, after a top official in Delhi said there was enough evidence to lay ...
First UK edition (publ. Flamingo) The Algebra of Infinite Justice (2001) is a collection of essays written by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy.The book discusses a wide range of issues including political euphoria in India over its successful nuclear bomb tests, the effect of public works projects on the environment, the influence of foreign multinational companies on policy in poorer ...
Roy will receive the prize on 10 October in a ceremony at the British Library. Roy, 62, is a vocal critic of the Narendra Modi government for its controversial policies and laws targeting minorities.
The Guardian wrote in a review "Roy covers the aggressive appropriation of tribal rural lands for mining and water projects, the expansion of nuclear weapons programmes, the privatisation and commercialisation of Indian services, the legacies and continuation of colonisation and imperialism in various forms, government corruption, American ...