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Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy speaking at the 2007 World Tribunal on Iraq.

24 November 1961 (1961-11-24)

Born (age 48)
Shillong, Meghalaya, India

Occupation Novelist, essayist

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

Early life and background

Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya,[1] India, to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother,
the women's rights activist Mary Roy, and a Bengali father, a tea planter by profession.
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, New 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. Until made financially stable by the success of her novel
The God of Small Things, she worked various jobs, including running aerobics classes at New
Delhi five-star hotels. Roy is a cousin of prominent media personality Prannoy Roy, the head of
the leading Indian TV media group NDTV,[2] and lives in New Delhi.
Career
Works
Early in her career, Roy worked for television and movies. She wrote the screenplays for In
Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989), a movie based on her experiences as a student of
architecture, directed by her current husband, and Electric Moon (1992); in both she also
appeared as a performer. Roy attracted attention in 1994, when she criticised Shekhar Kapur's
film Bandit Queen, based on the life of Phoolan Devi. In her film review titled, 'The Great Indian
Rape Trick', she questioned the right to "restage the rape of a living woman without her
permission," and charged Kapur with exploiting Devi and misrepresenting both her life and its
meaning.[3][4]
Roy began writing her first novel, The God of Small Things, in 1992, completing it in 1996.[5]
The book is semi-autobiographical and a major part captures her childhood experiences in
Ayemenem or Aymanam.[1]
The book received the 1997 Booker Prize for Fiction and was listed as one of the New York
Times Notable Books of the Year for 1997.[6] It reached fourth position on the New York Times
Bestsellers list for Independent Fiction.[7] From the beginning, the book was also a commercial
success: Roy received half a million pounds as an advance,[4] published in May, the book had
been sold to eighteen countries by the end of June.[5]
The God of Small Things received good reviews, for instance in The New York Times.[8]
After the success of her novel, Roy has been working as a screenplay writer again, writing a
television serial, The Banyan Tree,[citation needed][9] and the documentary DAM/AGE: A Film with
Arundhati Roy (2002).
In early 2007, Roy announced that she would begin work on a second novel.[10][4]
Arundhati Roy was one of the contributors for writing the book, We Are One: A Celebration of
Tribal Peoples, released in October 2009.[11] The book explores the culture of peoples around the
world, portraying both its diversity and the threats it faces. Among other contributors, we can
find several western writers, such as Laurens van der Post, Noam Chomsky, Claude Levi-
Strauss; and also indigenous peoples, such as Davi Kopenawa Yanomami and Roy Sesana. The
royalties from the sale of this book go to the indigenous rights organization, Survival
International.[12]
Advocacy and controversy
Since The God of Small Things Roy has devoted herself mainly to nonfiction and politics,
publishing two more collections of essays, as well as working for social causes. She is a
spokesperson of the anti-globalization/alter-globalization movement and a vehement critic of
neo-imperialism and of the global policies of the United States. She also criticizes India's nuclear
weapons policies and the approach to industrialization and rapid development as currently being
practiced in India, including the Narmada Dam project and the power company Enron's activities
in India.
Support for Kashmiri separatism
In an interview with Times of India published in August 2008, Arundhati Roy expressed her
support for the independence of Kashmir from India after massive demonstrations in favor of
independence took place—some 500,000 separatists rallied in Srinagar in the Kashmir part of
Jammu and Kashmir state of India for independence on 18 August 2008, according to Time
magazine.[13] She took the rallies as a clear sign that Kashmiris desire independence from India,
and not union with India.[14] She was criticized by Indian National Congress (INC) and BJP for
her remarks,[15] but along with Roy some mainstream Indian journalists, such as Vir Sanghvi
(executive editor of the Hindustan Times),[16] Jug Suraiya (editor of the The Times of India),[17]
and Swaminathan Aiyar (also at The Times of India),[18] have argued similarly.[19]
Sardar Sarovar Project
Roy has campaigned along with activist Medha Patkar against the Narmada dam project, saying
that the dam will displace half a million people, with little or no compensation, and will not
provide the projected irrigation, drinking water and other benefits.[20] Roy donated her Booker
prize money as well as royalties from her books on the project to the Narmada Bachao Andolan.
Roy also appears in Franny Armstrong's Drowned Out, a 2002 documentary about the project.[21]
Roy's opposition to the Narmada Dam project was criticised as "maligning Gujarat" by Congress
and BJP leaders in Gujarat.[22]
In 2002, Roy responded to a contempt notice issued against her by the Indian Supreme Court
with an affidavit saying the court's decision to initiate the contempt proceedings based on an
unsubstantiated and flawed petition, while refusing to inquire into allegations of corruption in
military contracting deals pleading an overload of cases, indicated a "disquieting inclination" by
the court to silence criticism and dissent using the power of contempt.[23] The court found Roy's
statement, which she refused to disavow or apologize for, constituted criminal contempt and
sentenced her to a "symbolic" one day's imprisonment and fined Roy Rs. 2500.[24] Roy served the
jail sentence for a single day and opted to pay the fine rather than serve an additional three
months' imprisonment for default.[25]
Environmental historian Ramachandra Guha has been critical of Roy's Narmada dam activism.
While acknowledging her "courage and commitment" to the cause, Guha writes that her
advocacy is hyperbolic and self-indulgent,[26] "Ms. Roy's tendency to exaggerate and simplify,
her Manichean view of the world, and her shrill hectoring tone, have given a bad name to
environmental analysis".[27] He faults Roy's criticism of Supreme Court judges who were hearing
a petition brought by the Narmada Bachao Andolan as careless and irresponsible.
Roy counters that her writing is intentional in its passionate, hysterical tone: "I am hysterical. I'm
screaming from the bloody rooftops. And he and his smug little club are going 'Shhhh... you'll
wake the neighbours!' I want to wake the neighbours, that's my whole point. I want everybody to
open their eyes".[28]
Gail Omvedt and Roy have had a fierce discussions, in open letters, on Roy's strategy for the
Narmada Dam movement. Though the activists disagree on whether to demand stopping the dam
building all together (Roy) or searching for intermediate alternatives (Omvedt), the exchange has
mostly been, though critical, constructive.[29]
United States foreign policy, the War in Afghanistan
In a 2001 opinion piece in the British newspaper The Guardian, Arundhati Roy responded to the
US military invasion of Afghanistan, finding fault with the argument that this war would be a
retaliation for the September 11 attacks: "The bombing of Afghanistan is not revenge for New
York and Washington. It is yet another act of terror against the people of the world." According
to her, U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were guilty of a
Big Brother-kind of doublethink: "When he announced the air strikes, President George Bush
said: 'We're a peaceful nation.' America's favourite ambassador, Tony Blair, (who also holds the
portfolio of prime minister of the UK), echoed him: 'We're a peaceful people.' So now we know.
Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War is peace."
She disputes U.S. claims of being a peaceful and freedom-loving nation, listing China and
nineteen 3rd World "countries that America has been at war with - and bombed - since the
second world war",[note 1] as well as previous U.S. support for the Taliban movement and support
for the Northern Alliance (whose "track record is not very different from the Taliban's"). She
does not spare the Taliban: "Now, as adults and rulers, the Taliban beat, stone, rape and brutalise
women, they don't seem to know what else to do with them."
In the final analysis, Roy sees American-style capitalism as the culprit: "In America, the arms
industry, the oil industry, the major media networks, and, indeed, US foreign policy, are all
controlled by the same business combines." She puts the attacks on the World Trade Center and
on Afghanistan on the same moral level, that of terrorism, and mourns the impossibility of
imagining beauty after 2001: "Will it be possible ever again to watch the slow, amazed blink of a
newborn gecko in the sun, or whisper back to the marmot who has just whispered in your ear -
without thinking of the World Trade Centre and Afghanistan?"[30]
In May 2003 she delivered a speech entitled "Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy" at the Riverside
Church in New York City. In it she described the United States as a global empire that reserves
the right to bomb any of its subjects at any time, deriving its legitimacy directly from God. The
speech was an indictment of the U.S. actions relating to the Iraq War.[31][32] In June 2005 she took
part in the World Tribunal on Iraq. In March 2006, Roy criticized US President George W.
Bush's visit to India, calling him a "war criminal."[33]
India's nuclear weaponisation
In response to India's testing of nuclear weapons in Pokhran, Rajasthan, Roy wrote The End of
Imagination (1998), a critique of the Indian government's nuclear policies. It was published in
her collection The Cost of Living (1999), in which she also crusaded against India's massive
hydroelectric dam projects in the central and western states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and
Gujarat.
Criticism of Israel
In August 2006, Roy, along with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and others, signed a letter in
The Guardian called the 2006 Lebanon War a "war crime" and accused Israel of "state terror."[34]
In 2007, Roy was one of more than 100 artists and writers who signed an open letter initiated by
Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism and the South West Asian, North African Bay Area
Queers and calling on the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival "to honor calls for an
international boycott of Israeli political and cultural institutions, by discontinuing Israeli
consulate sponsorship of the LGBT film festival and not cosponsoring events with the Israeli
consulate."[35][36]
2001 Indian Parliament attack
Roy has raised questions about the investigation into the 2001 Indian Parliament attack and the
trial of the accused. She has called for the death sentence of Mohammad Afzal to be stayed while
a parliamentary enquiry into these questions are conducted and denounced press coverage of the
trial.[37] The BJP has criticized Roy for what it alleges is defence of a terrorist going against the
national interest.[38][dead link]
The Muthanga incident
In 2003, the Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha, a social movement for adivasi land rights in Kerala,
organized a major land occupation of a piece of land of a former Eucalyptus plantation in the
Muthanga Wildlife Reserve, on the border of Kerala and Karnataka. After 48 days, a police force
was sent into the area to evict the occupants—one participant of the movement and a policeman
were killed, and the leaders of the movement were arrested. Arundhati Roy travelled to the area,
visited the movement's leaders in jail, and wrote an open letter to the then Chief Minister of
Kerala, A.K. Antony now India's Defence Minister, saying "You have blood on your hands."[39]
Comments on 2008 Mumbai attacks
In an opinion piece on the website of British newspaper The Guardian (13 December 2008), Roy
argued that the November 2008 Mumbai attacks can not be seen in isolation, but must be
understood in the context of wider issues in the region's history and society such as widespread
poverty, the Partition of India (which Roy calls "Britain's final, parting kick to us"), the atrocities
committed during the 2002 Gujarat violence, and the ongoing conflict in Kashmir. Despite this
call for context, Roy states clearly in the article that she believes "nothing can justify terrorism"
and calls terrorism "a heartless ideology". Roy warns against war with Pakistan, arguing that it is
hard to "pin down the provenance of a terrorist strike and isolate it within the borders of a single
nation state", and that war could lead to the "descent of the whole region into chaos".[40] Her
remarks were strongly criticized by author Salman Rushdie.[41] Rushdie slammed her for linking
Bombay attacks with Kashmir and economic injustice against Muslims in India.[42] He also said
that Arundhati's arguments about Hotel Taj not being an icon of India, were unintelligent and
unfair.[43]. Indian writer Tavleen Singh has termed Roy's "need for contest" as a "hysterical
diatribe"[44]
War in Srilanka against Tamil rebels, 2009
In an opinion piece, once again in The Guardian, (April 1, 2009), Roy made a plea for
international attention to what she perceived, based on reports, to be a possible government-
sponsored genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka. She cited reports of camps into which Tamils were
being herded as part of what she described as "a brazen, openly racist war."[45]. Ruvani Freeman,
a Sri Lankan writer called Roy's remarks "ill-informed and hypocritical" and criticized her for
whitewashing the atrocities of the LTTE[46]
Violation of forest law
In 2003, Arundhati and her husband[47], were informed by Panchmarhi district administration that
a hilltop bungalow her husband owns near Panchmarhi stands on notified forest land and has to
be pulled down, on grounds of violation of forest law. Also named in the case was the sister of
Indian novelist Vikram Seth and two forest officials. Section 18 of the law bars buying and
selling of notified forest land. Arundhati’s husband bought the 4,346 sq ft plot in 1994.[48].
Awards
Arundhati Roy was awarded the 1997 Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things. The
award carried a prize of about US $30,000[49] and a citation that noted, 'The book keeps all the
promises that it makes.'[50] Prior to this, she won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay in
1989, for the semi-autobiographical screenplay of In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones.[51]
In 2002, she won the Lannan Foundation's Cultural Freedom Award for her work "about civil
societies that are adversely affected by the world’s most powerful governments and
corporations," in order "to celebrate her life and her ongoing work in the struggle for freedom,
justice and cultural diversity."[52]
Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in May 2004 for her work in social campaigns and her
advocacy of non-violence.
In January 2006, she was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, a national award from India's
Academy of Letters, for her collection of essays on contemporary issues, The Algebra of Infinite
Justice, but she declined to accept it "in protest against the Indian Government toeing the US line
by 'violently and ruthlessly pursuing policies of brutalisation of industrial workers, increasing
militarisation and economic neo-liberalisation.'"[53]
Bibliography
Books
• The God of Small Things. Flamingo, 1997. ISBN 0-00-655068-1.
• The End of Imagination. Kottayam: D.C. Books, 1998. ISBN 8171308678.
• The Cost of Living. Flamingo, 1999. ISBN 0375756140. Contains the essays "The
Greater Common Good" and "The End of Imagination."
• The Greater Common Good. Bombay: India Book Distributor, 1999. ISBN 8173101213.
• The Algebra of Infinite Justice. Flamingo, 2002. ISBN 0-00-714949-2. Collection of
essays: "The End of Imagination," "The Greater Common Good," "Power Politics", "The
Ladies Have Feelings, So...," "The Algebra of Infinite Justice," "War is Peace,"
"Democracy," "War Talk", and "Come September."
• Power Politics. Cambridge: South End Press, 2002. ISBN 0-89608-668-2.
• 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 014310182X.
• The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with Arundhati Roy. New Delhi: Penguin, Viking,
2008. ISBN 9780670082070.
 • Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy. New Delhi: Penguin, Hamish
Hamilton, 2009. ISBN 9780670083794.
Books and articles about Roy
• Anūp, Si. (1997). Arundhatiyuṭẹ atbhutalōkaṃ. Trivandrum: New Indian Books.
• Balvannanadhan, Aïda (2007). Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. New Delhi:
Prestige Books. ISBN 8175511931.
• Bhatt, Indira; Indira Nityanandam (1999). Explorations: Arundhati Roy’s The God of
Small Things. New Delhi: Creative Books. ISBN 8186318569.
• "The Politics of Design," in Ch'ien, Evelyn Nien-Ming (2005). Weird English. Harvard
UP. pp. 154-99. ISBN 9780674018198. http://books.google.com/books?
id=Fx6o5NXOLoQC.
• Dhawan, R.K. (1999). Arundhati Roy, the novelist extraordinary. New Delhi: Prestige
Books. ISBN 8175510609.
• Dodiya, Jaydipsinh; Joya Chakravarty (1999). The Critical studies of Arundhati Roy’s
The God of Small Things. New Delhi: Atlantic. ISBN 8171568505.
• Durix, Carole; Jean-Pierre Durix (2002). Reading Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small
Things. Dijon: Editions universitaires de Dijon. ISBN 2905965800.
• Ghosh, Ranjan; Antonia Navarro-Tejero (2009). Globalizing dissent: Essays on
Arundhati Roy. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415995597.
• ̲̲
Jōsaphmātyu, Ēttumānūr ̲
(1997). Arundhati Rōyiyuṭe Da gōḍ ōph smōḷ tiṅgs: kathayuṃ
kāryavuṃ: sāhitya paṭhanam. Kottayam: Toms Literary Editions.
• Mullaney, Julie (2002). Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: A reader’s guide.
New York: Continuum. ISBN 0826453279.
• Navarro-Tejero, Antonia (2005). Gender and caste in the Anglophone-Indian novels of
Arundhati Roy and Githa Hariharan: feminist issues in cross-cultural perspectives.
Lewiston: Edwin Mellen. ISBN 0773459952.
• Pathak, R.S. (2001). The fictional world of Arundhati Roy. New Delhi: Creative Books.
ISBN 8186318844.
• Prasad, Murari; Bill Ashcroft (foreword) (2006). Arundhati Roy, critical perspectives.
Delhi: Pencraft International. ISBN 8185753768.
• 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.
• Sharma, A.P. (2000). The mind and the art of Arundhati Roy: a critical appraisal of her
novel, The God of Small Things. New Delhi: Minerva. ISBN 817662120X.
• Shashi, R.S.; Bala Talwar (1998). Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: Critique
and commentary. New Delhi: Creative Books. ISBN 8186318542.
• Tickell, Alex (2007). Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. New York: Routledge.
ISBN 9780415358422.
• ̲ , krtiyu
Tōmas, Jōmi (1997). Arundhati Rōy ̥ ṃ kālcappā
̲ ṭum. Kozhikode: Karant
̲ ̲ Buks.
ISBN 812400515X.
See also
• Anti-globalization movement
• Narmada Bachao Andolan
• Indian English literature
• American Empire
• Criticism of United States foreign policy
External links

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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."

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36.^ "San Francisco Queers Say No Pride in Apartheid". 2007-05-29.
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