Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father, a tea planter by profession.
She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things. Her views on many issues has rubbed many Indians the Wrong way
Roy on Kashmir
Roy says Kashmir has never been an integral part of India- a historical fact as per her.
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Roy on Big Dams
Roy on Maoists
Roy on RSS
Roy on Taliban
Roy on Capitalism