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Arundhati Roy
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Arundhati Roy
Nationality Indian
Writing period 1997-present
Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian writer (in English) and activist
who won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and in 2002, the
Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize. She is also a writer of two screenplays and a number of
collections of essays. Roy is a well-known activist for social and economic justice.
Contents
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• 1 Early life and background
• 2 Career
○ 2.1 Works
• 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 War in Srilanka against Tamil rebels, 2009
○ 3.10 Violation of forest law
• 4 Awards
• 5 Bibliography
○ 5.1 Books
○ 5.2 Books and articles about Roy
• 6 See also
• 7 External links
○ 7.1 Works, speeches
○ 7.2 Other
○ 7.3 Biographical material
• 8 Notes
• 9 References
Works, speeches
• We 'We,' documentary featuring the works of Arundhati Roy
• Come September Transcript of speech on 18 September 2002 and conversation with
Howard Zinn
• Arundhati Roy on India, Iraq, U.S. Empire and Dissent—interview on Democracy Now!
• 'We have to become the global resistance' (Abridged version of speech at the World
Social Forum in Mumbai, 16 January 2004)
• Tide? or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire (16 August 2004 speech in San
Francisco)
• ABC Radio National transcript of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture (with audio) or download
the speech here
• 'The Most Cowardly War in History'; opening statement at the Iraq tribunal (Article dated
24 June 2005)
• Podcast of Arundhati Roy and Pankaj Mishra discussing "India in the World" at the
Shanghai International Literary Festival
• Arundhati Roy on the Human Costs of India’s Economic Growth, the View of Obama in
New Delhi, and Escalating US Attacks in Af-Pak
• Audio: Arundhati Roy in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion programme
The Forum
Other
• We, a political documentary about Roy's words. Available online.
• Arundhati Roy denounces Indian democracy by Atul Cowshish
• Carreira, Shirley de S. G.A representação da mulher em Shame, de Salman Rushdie, e O
deus das pequenas coisas, de Arundathi Roy. In: MONTEIRO, Conceição & LIMA,
Tereza M. de O. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Caetés, 2005
• "In the Valley of the Tigers"; Interview with Ascent magazine on the Narmada Valley
• Ch'ien, Evelyn Nien-Ming, "The Politics of Design" (Weird English. Cambridge: Harvard
UP, 2004; 154-99). Essay on Roy's language. Available online.
Biographical material
• Literary Encyclopedia (in-progress)
• SAWNET biography
• Bibliography
Notes
1. ^ Roy lists "China (1945-46, 1950-53), Korea (1950-53), Guatemala (1954, 1967-69), Indonesia
(1958), Cuba (1959-60), the Belgian Congo (1964), Peru (1965), Laos (1964-73), Vietnam (1961-
73), Cambodia (1969-70), Grenada (1983), Libya (1986), El Salvador (1980s), Nicaragua
(1980s), Panama (1989), Iraq (1991-99), Bosnia (1995), Sudan (1998), Yugoslavia (1999). And
now Afghanistan. ...we in the third world feel more than a tremor of fear."
References
1. ^ a b "Arundhati Roy, 1959 -". The South Asian Literary Recordings Project. Library of Congress,
New Delhi Office. 2002-11-15. http://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/arundhathiroy.html.
Retrieved 2009-04-06.
2. ^ Rediff On The NeT: Mary Roy celebrates her daughter's victory.
3. ^ "Arundhati Roy: A 'small hero'". BBC News Online. 2002-03-06.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1857495.stm.
4. ^ a b c Ramesh, Randeep (2007-02-17). "Live to tell". The Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/feb/17/fiction.arundhatiroy. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
5. ^ a b Roy, Amitabh (2005). The God of Small Things: A Novel of Social Commitment. Atlantic.
pp. 37-38. ISBN 9788126904099. http://books.google.com/books?
id=2LgYuhRK0yIC&pg=PA37&dq=%22Pradip+Krishen%22&as_brr=0#PPA37,M1.
6. ^ "Notable Books of the Year 1997". New York Times. 1997-12-07.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/07/reviews/notable-fiction.html. Retrieved 2007-03-21.
7. ^ "Best Sellers Plus". New York Times. 1998-01-25.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/25/bsp/fictioncompare.html. Retrieved 2007-03-21.
8. ^ Truax, Alice (1997-05-25), "A Silver Thimble in Her Fist", New York Times,
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/25/reviews/970525.25truaxt.html
9. ^ See Talk Page
10.^ Randeep Ramesh (2007-03-10). "An activist returns to the novel". Sydney Morning Herald.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/an-activist-returns-to-the-
novel/2007/03/08/1173166881043.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2. Retrieved 2007-03-13.
11.^ "‘We Are One: a celebration of tribal peoples’ published this autumn". Survival International.
2009-10-16. http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/4981. Retrieved 2009-11-25.
12.^ Survival International - We Are One
13.^ Thottam, Jyoti (2008-09-04). "Valley of Tears". Time magazine.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1838586,00.html. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
14.^ Ghosh, Avijit (2008-08-19). "Kashmir needs freedom from India: Arundhati Roy". Times of
India.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Kashmir_needs_freedom_from_India_Arundhati_Roy/articles
how/3378687.cms. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
15.^ "Cong attacks Roy on Kashmir remark". Economic Times (Times of India). 20 Aug 2008.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Cong_attacks_Roy_on_Kashmir_rema
rk/articleshow/3384003.cms. Retrieved 2009-03-25.
16.^ Sanghvi, Vir (2008-08-16). "Think the Unthinkable". Hindustan Times.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=37ea1a37-c222-41e7-8b19-
859b5fd34cbd. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
17.^ Suraiya, Jug (2008-08-20). "India minus K-word". The Times of India.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Editorial/India_minus_K-word/articleshow/3382132.cms.
Retrieved 2009-04-06.
18.^ Aiyar, Swaminathan S Anklesaria (2008-08-17). "Independence Day for Kashmir". The Times
of India.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Columnists/Independence_Day_for_Kashmir/articles
how/3372132.cms. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
19.^ Manchanda, Rita (2008-09-04). "Media-India: Columnists Support Kashmir's Secession". Inter
Press Service. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43782. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
20.^ Roy, Arundhati (May 22 - June 04, 1999), "The Greater Common Good", Frontline (magazine)
16 (11), http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1611/16110040.htm
21.^ "Drowned Out". Internet Movie Database. 2009. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424055/.
Retrieved 2009-04-06.
22.^ "Playwright Tendulkar in BJP gunsight". The Telegraph (Kolkata). 2003-12-13.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1031213/asp/nation/story_2674388.asp. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
The Telegraph - Calcutta: Nation].
23.^ "Arundhati’s contempt: Supreme Court writes her a prison sentence". Indian Express. 2002-03-
07. http://www.indianexpress.com/india-news/ie20020307/top3.html. V. Venkatesan and
Sukumar Muralidharan (August 18 - 31, 2001). "Of contempt and legitimate dissent". Frontline.
http://www.flonnet.com/fl1817/18170910.htm.
24.^ In re: Arundhati Roy.... Contemner, JUDIS (Supreme Court of India bench, Justices G.B.
Pattanaik & R.P. Sethi 2002-03-06).
25.^ Roy, Arundhati (2002-03-07). "Statement by Arundhati Roy". Friends of River Narmada.
http://www.narmada.org/sc.contempt/aroy.stmt.mar7.2002.html. Retrieved 2007-03-21.
26.^ Ramachandra Guha, The Arun Shourie of the left, The Hindu, 2000-11-26.
27.^ Ramachandra Guha, Perils of extremism, The Hindu, 2000-12-17.
28.^ Ram, N. (6-19 January 2001). "Scimitars in the Sun: N. Ram interviews Arundhati Roy on a
writer's place in politics.". Frontline, The Hindu.
http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1801/18010040.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
29.^ Omvedt, Gail. "An Open Letter to Arundhati Roy". Friends of River Narmada.
http://www.narmada.org/debates/gail/gail.open.letter.html. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
30.^ Roy, Arundhati (2001-10-23). "'Brutality smeared in peanut butter': Why America must stop
the war now". The Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4283081,00.html. Retrieved 2009-03-11.
31.^ Roy, Arundhati (2003-05-13). "Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy (Buy One, Get One Free)".
Text of speech at the Riverside Church. Commondreams.org.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0518-01.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
32.^ Roy, Arundhati. "Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy, Buy One Get One Free – An Hour With
Arundhati Roy". Text of speech at the Riverside Church. Democracy Now!.
http://www.democracynow.org/2003/10/24/instant_mix_imperial_democracy_buy_one.
Retrieved 2009-04-06.
33.^ Roy, Arundhati (2006-02-28). "George Bush go home" (in en). The Hindu.
http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/28/stories/2006022804301100.htm. Retrieved 2007-03-21.
34.^ "War crimes and Lebanon". 2006-08-03.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1835915,00.html. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
35.^ "Political Notebook: Queer activists reel over Israel, Frameline ties". 2007-05-17.
http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=1838.
36.^ "San Francisco Queers Say No Pride in Apartheid". 2007-05-29.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6966.shtml.
37.^ Arundhati Roy, 'And His Life Should Become Extinct', Outlook, 2006-10-30.
38.^ BJP flays Arundhati for 'defending' Afzal, The Hindu, 2006-10-28.
39.^ Roy, Arundhati (March 15 2003). ""You have blood on your hands"; Arundhati Roy to Kerala
Chief Minister Antony". Frontline, Vol.20, Issue 6 (The Hindu).
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2006/stories/20030328002104500.htm. Retrieved 2009-03-
25.
40.^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/12/mumbai-arundhati-roy
41.^
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/All_terrorism_roads_lead_to_Pakistan_says_Salman_Rushdie
/articleshow/3855871.cms
42.^ http://www.asiasociety.org/resources/081217_mumbai.html
43.^ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videoshow/3858343.cms
44.^ The real enemies Indian Express - December 21, 2008
45.^ Roy, Arundhati (2009-04-01). "This is not a war on terror. It is a racist war on all Tamils". The
Guardian online edition (The Guardian).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/01/sri-lanka-india-tamil-tigers.
46.^ Lankan writer slams Arundhati Roy Indian Express - April 4, 2009
47.^ Arundhati Roy, Vikram Seth in encroachment case Times of India - June 26, 2006
48.^ KIDWAI, RASHEED (2003-05-07). "Bungalow blow to Arundhati - Allotment on notified
forest land cancelled in Panchmarhi" (in en). The Telegraph (Calcutta).
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1030507/asp/frontpage/story_1945565.asp. Retrieved 2007-03-
21.
49.^ "Arundhati Roy interviewed by David Barsamian". The South Asian. September 2001.
http://www.the-south-asian.com/Sept2001/Arundhati_Roy-Interview1.htm.
50.^ "Previous winners - 1997". Booker Prize Foundation.
http://www.themanbookerprize.com/about/previous/1997.php. Retrieved 2007-03-21.
51.^ In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones - Awards Internet Movie Database.
52.^ "2002 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize awarded to Arundhati Roy". Lannan Foundation.
http://www.lannan.org/lf/cf/detail/2002-prize-for-cultural-freedom-roy/. Retrieved 2007-03-21.
53.^ Sahitya Akademi Award: Arundhati Roy Rejects Honor.
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