Arundhati Roy Quotes

Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. She 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 and for her involvement in human rights and environmental causes. Roy's novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author. Roy is known for her secular, anti-caste and anti-Hindutva views, and recently for her trenchant criticism of Mohandas Gandhi for favouring the varna system. She studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. In 1984 she met independent filmmaker Pradip Krishen, who offered her a role as a goatherd in his award-winning movie Massey Sahib. She became financially secure by the success of her novel The God of Small Things, published in 1997. Early in her career, Roy worked for television and movies. Roy began writing her first novel, The God of Small Things, in 1992, completing it in 1996. Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in May 2004 for her work in social campaigns and her advocacy of non-violence.