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Suzanna Arundhati Roy[1] (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author and political activist who is best known for the 1998 Man Booker Prize for Fiction winning novel The God of Small Things (1997) and for her involvement in environmental and human rights causes. Roy 's novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author.
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1 Early life and background
2 Career
2.1 Literary career
2.2 Early career: screenplays
2.3 The God of Small Things
2.4 Later career
3 Advocacy and controversy
3.1 Support for Kashmiri separatism
3.2 Sardar Sarovar Project
3.3 United States foreign policy, the War in Afghanistan
3.4 India 's nuclear weaponisation
3.5 Criticism of Israel
3.6 2001 Indian Parliament attack
3.7 The Muthanga incident
3.8 Comments on 2008 Mumbai attacks
3.9 Criticism of Sri Lanka
3.10 Views on the Naxalites
3.11 Sedition charges
3.12 Criticism of Anna Hazare
3.13 Views on Narendra Modi
4 Awards
5 Works
5.1 Books
6 See also
7 References
7.1 Books and articles on Roy
7.2 Other
8 Notes
9 External links
Early life and background
Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India,[2] to Ranjit Roy, a Bengali Hindu tea planter and Mary Roy, a Malayali Syrian Christian women 's rights activist.
She spent her childhood in Aymanam in Kerala, and went to school at Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed by the Lawrence School, Lovedale, in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. She then studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, where she met her first husband, architect Gerard da Cunha.
Roy met her second husband, filmmaker Pradip Krishen, in 1984, and played a village girl in his award-winning movie Massey Sahib.[3] Until made financially secure by the success of her novel The God of Small Things, she worked various jobs, including running aerobics classes at five-star hotels in New Delhi. Roy is a cousin of prominent media personality Prannoy Roy, the head of the leading Indian TV media



References: Later career Since the success of her novel, Roy has been working as a screenplay writer again, writing a television serial, The Banyan Tree,[20] and the documentary DAM/AGE: A Film with Arundhati Roy (2002). Criticism of Sri Lanka In an opinion piece, once again in The Guardian (1 April 2009), Roy made a plea for international attention to what she called a possible government-sponsored genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka The God of Small Things. Flamingo, 1997. ISBN 0-00-655068-1. The End of Imagination. Kottayam: D.C. Books, 1998. ISBN 81-7130-867-8. The Cost of Living. Flamingo, 1999. ISBN 0-375-75614-0. Contains the essays "The Greater Common Good" and "The End of Imagination." The Greater Common Good War Talk. Cambridge: South End Press, 2003. ISBN 0-89608-724-7. Foreword to Noam Chomsky, For Reasons of State. 2003. ISBN 1-56584-794-6. An Ordinary Person 's Guide To Empire. Consortium, 2004. ISBN 0-89608-727-1. Public Power in the Age of Empire Seven Stories Press, 2004. ISBN 1-58322-682-6. The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy. Interviews by David Barsamian. Cambridge: South End Press, 2004. ISBN 0-89608-710-7. Introduction to 13 December, a Reader: The Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament. New Delhi, New York: Penguin, 2006. ISBN 0-14-310182-X. The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with Arundhati Roy. New Delhi: Penguin, Viking, 2008. ISBN 978-0-670-08207-0.

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