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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]
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The COVID-19 pandemic was covered in Wikipedia extensively, in real-time, and across multiple languages. This coverage extends to many detailed articles about various aspects of the topic itself, as well as many existing articles being amended to take account of the pandemic 's effect on them. [1] Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects ...
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 ...
News organization CNN formally declares the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. It is reported that the Trump administration, without explanation, postponed the Director of National Intelligence's (DNI) annual US World Wide Threat Assessment which warns that the U.S. remains unprepared for a global pandemic.
File: Indian author Arundhati Roy, Grand Laureate for the 2020 Lee Hochul Literary Prize for Peace, speaks during a press conference in Seoul (AFP via Getty Images) A top Indian official has ...
The term pandemic had not been used then, but was used for later epidemics, including the 1918 H1N1 influenza A pandemic—more commonly known as the Spanish flu—which is the deadliest pandemic in history. The most recent pandemics include the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the 2009 swine flu pandemic and the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost all these diseases ...
The COVID-19 portal. Coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Most scientists believe the SARS-CoV-2 virus entered into human populations through natural zoonosis, similar to the SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV outbreaks, and ...