Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and activist best known for her novel The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997. She was born in 1961 in Shillong, India to parents from different religious backgrounds. Roy studied architecture but began writing her acclaimed novel in 1992, completing it in 1996. In addition to writing, she is involved in environmental and human rights causes and has advocated on issues including Kashmiri separatism, nuclear weapons, and criticism of government policies. She has received several awards for her writing and social activism.

1. THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS
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3. Childhood:
• Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an
Indian author and political activist
• Best known for the 1998 Man Booker Prize for
Fiction winning novel The God of Small Things
(1997)
• Involves in environmental and human rights
causes.

4. Early Life:
• Born: Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
• Parents : Ranjit Roy, a Bengali Hindu tea planter and Mary Roy, a
Malayali Syrian Christian women's rights activist.
• Childhood: Aymanam in Kerala
• Schooling : at Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed by the Lawrence
School, Lovedale, in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu.
• Studied architecture at the School of Planning and
Architecture, Delhi, where she met her first husband, architect
Gerard da Cunha.

5. Background:
• Roy met her second husband, filmmaker
Pradip Krishen, in 1984, and played a village
girl in his award-winning movie Massey Sahib.
• Cousin of prominent media personality
Prannoy Roy, the head of the leading Indian
TV media group NDTV .

6. Career:
• Worked for televison and movies.
• Wrote screen play for movies.
• She began to write her first novel The God of
Small Things, in 1992, completing it in 1996.
• It reached fourth position on the New York
Times Bestsellers list for Independent Fiction

7. Career:
• It has received several awards from Los Angels
Time, Toronto Star and TIME
• Later after the success of her book, she was
involved in making a screenplay for movies.
• In the year 2002 a documentary film released by
name “A Film with Arundhati Roy “
• And in the year 2009 again a book released on
the name of “A Celebration of Tribal Peoples”. The
book explores the culture of peoples around the
world, portraying their diversity and the threats
to their existence.

8. Political views:
• Support for Kashmiri separatism
• Sardar Sarovar Project
• United States foreign policy, the War in Afghanistan
• India's nuclear weaponisation
• Criticism of Israel
• 2001 Indian Parliament attack
• The Muthanga incident
• Views on the Naxalites

9. Political views:
• Criticism of Anna Hazare
• Sedition charges
• Above all mentioned views are some of the
advocacy and controversy views on which she
commented and given some statement.

10. Awards:
• Awarded the 1997 Booker Prize for her novel The
God of Small Things.
• Won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay in
1989 for “In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones”.
• In 2003, she was awarded 'special recognition' as a
Woman of Peace at the Global Exchange Human
Rights Awards in San Francisco.
• The Sydney Peace Prize in May 2004 for her work in
social campaigns and her advocacy of non-violence.

11. Awards:
• In November 2011, she was awarded the Norman
Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing.