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	Arundhati Roy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2002, Roy was convicted of contempt of court by the Supreme Court in New Delhi for accusing the court of attempting to silence protests against the Narmada Dam Project.
		Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in May 2004 for her work in social campaigns and advocacy of non-violence.
		The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arundhati_Roy (1107 words)

	Arundhati Roy
		Roy's passionate expose of patriarchy has generated a number of predictable knee-jerk responses including that of being 'anti-men', (a woman friend buying the book at a Delhi bookstall recently was told by the bookseller, 'I hope you don't share her views about Indian men!'), and that of being 'pornographic'.
		In terms of Roy's approach to the left, the fact that the novel focusses in on individual acts of resistance does not automatically imply, as Ahmed suggests, that the author is espousing a fully-fledged 'subaltern' theory in which wider organised forms of resistance are rejected.
		Interestingly, Roy's critics have chosen to pass over her most coherent, though bitter, critique of Communist rule in Kerala which makes it quite clear that it is not Marxism, but the practices of the CPI(M) in that particular state, which she is at odds with.
	www.angelfire.com /in/SASG/aroy.html (3164 words)

	Bio on Arundhati Roy
		Arundhati Roy was born in 1961 in Kerala.
		Roy says that her use of the English language was not so much a conscious decision for her, as a choice imposed on her because "There are more people in India that speak English than there are in England.
		Roy's concern for the environment and for the people inhabiting it permeates her life; the social conscience that she exhibits may be read into the literature that she produces as a concrete embodiment of this concern.
	www.haverford.edu /engl/engl277b/Contexts/Arundhati_Roy.htm (1167 words)

	SAWNET: Bookshelf: Arundhati Roy
		As the daughter of Mary Roy, the woman whose court case changed the inheritance laws in favour of women, she was closely acquainted with the Syrian Christian traditions which feature prominently in the book.
		Roy squelched the gossip by saying that she might never write another novel and had no intentions of trying to rival the success of her first.
		Arundhati Roy eloquently represents the thoughts of people worldwide who are coming to know the United States through the machinations of multinational corporations and the military.
	www.sawnet.org /books/authors.php?Roy+Arundhati (1102 words)

	ZNet Audio: Arundhati Roy
		Arundhati Roy Speaks On War, Terror and the Logic of Empire.
		Arundhati Roy explains why she continues to protest despite the risks of being sent to prison.
		Arundhati Roy discusses India's independence and the effect it's had on politics, culture and religions.
	www.zmag.org /royaudio.html (293 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Roy, Arundhati
		Arundhati Roy was born on November 24, 1961, in Shillong Meghalaya, in Bengal, North Eastern India.
		Roy is known for her anti-war activist opinions, and she expresses them bravely in her numerous published works and speeches.
		Roy uses her bold writing style to speak her mind on the injustices and deficiencies of the politics of the world.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/roy_arundhati.html (1205 words)

	Amazon.ca: Power Politics: Books: Arundhati Roy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, brings her keen novelist's eye to her analysis of the tragic events of September 11 and the military response, starting with the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan.
		Arundhati Roy bristles at being called a "writer-activist" (too much like sofa-bed, she says), but the rest of us should be grateful that the author of "The God of Small Things" is taking on the establishment, here and in India.
		Roy's greatness is that she is not colored by the partisan debates that influence the dialogue on issues such as globalization in America.
	www.amazon.ca /Power-Politics-Arundhati-Roy/dp/0896086682 (1328 words)

	Amazon.com: The Cost of Living: Books: Arundhati Roy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy by Arundhati Roy
		Roy notes that 60% of the 200,000 people likely to be uprooted by the project are tribal people, many illiterate, who will be deprived of their original livelihoods and land.
		Roy's research is compiled, not from debunkable interviews, but from government plans and records, World Bank reviews and estimates of economic benefit and capital cost, and from statistics such as river flow, reservoir levels, areas of irrigated land, numbers of malaria cases, and megawatts of power produced.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375756140?v=glance (2725 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Arundhati Roy: A 'small hero'
		The Indian novelist Arundhati Roy burst on to the UK literary scene when her debut novel, The God of Small Things, won the Booker Prize in October 1997 six months after its publication, in Delhi.
		Roy's Booker acceptance speech made it clear that being a literary sensation had not gone to her head.
		Roy argued that Devi - who was shot dead in Delhi outside her home on in 2001 - had been exploited by the filmmakers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1857495.stm (568 words)

	Amazon.ca: War Talk: Books: Arundhati Roy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Roy dissects her country's violent religious conflicts, celebrates and mourns the seemingly lost legacy of Gandhi, and condemns India's gargantuan and environmentally unsound hydroelectric dam projects and the concomitant displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
		Arundhati Roy is the winner of the Lannan Foundation's Prize for Cultural Freedom, 2002, and will be returning to the U.S. in association with the Lannan Foundation in 2003.
		Roy looks at the attacks on Muslims but she totally ignores the mass murder of Hindus in Bangladesh or the Sikhs in Pakistan and she ignores the massacres of Hindus daily in Kashmir who are simply trying to go to their holy places.
	www.amazon.ca /War-Talk-Arundhati-Roy/dp/0896087247 (1701 words)

	SAJA: Arundhati Roy
		Arundhati Roy's fall 1999 trip to the United States is sponsored by International Rivers Network -- "Linking Human Rights and Environmental Protection" -- of Berkeley, California.
		Arundhati Roy's strong and vivid voice in THE COST OF LIVING proves her a true literary talent, existing comfortably - and powerfully - in the realm of both fiction and nonfiction.
		As the daughter of Mary Roy, the woman whose court case changed the inheritance laws in favour of women, she was closely acquainted with the Syrian Catholic traditions, which feature prominently in the book.
	www.saja.org /roy.html (667 words)

	Amazon.fr : Power Politics: Livres: Arundhati Roy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Roy's activism against the construction of dams that displace hundreds of thousands, especially the poor and low-caste, earned her a contempt of court citation from India's Supreme Court.
		Likewise, Roy's other two short essays, ostensibly about the role of the writer (or "writer-activist," as she puts it) in society, criticize development, trade and global finance.
		Roy challenges the idea that only "experts" can speak out on such urgent matters as nuclear war, the human costs of the privatization of India's power supply by U.S.-based energy companies, and the construction of monumental dams in India.
	www.amazon.fr /Power-Politics-Arundhati-Roy/dp/0896086690 (445 words)

	"Come September," a speech by Arundhati Roy, 18 Sept 2002
		Roy: Well, the thing is, in India it's so complicated that the more, the longer you live there, the more confused you get because when you think of class in India you have so many other things too.
		Roy: Imagine when they gave a judgment about me. They said, "vicious stultification and vulgar debunking cannot be permitted to pollute the pure stream of justice".
		Roy: I had to look up in the dictionary to figure out what they meant and at the end of it they just kept saying, "but the respondent is not behaving like a reasonable man".
	nmazca.com /verba/roy.htm (10082 words)

	Arundhati Roy
		Arundhati Roy was born in 1959 in Shillong, India.
		Roy is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize.It has sold six million copies and has been translated into over 20 languages worldwide.
		Roy has also written three non-fiction books: The Cost of Living, Power Politics and her newest book War Talk, a collection of essays analyzing issues of war and peace, democracy and dissent, racism and empire.
	www.democracynow.org /static/roy.shtml (396 words)

	Salon \| Sneak Peeks
		Roy, an architect and screenwriter who grew up in Kerala, capably shoulders the burdens of caste and tradition, a double weight that crushes some of her characters and warps others, but leaves none untouched.
		Roy takes up classic material, but she delights in verbal innovation and stylistic tricks.
		Mostly, though, Roy's verbal exuberance is all her own, and it makes "The God of Small Things" a real pleasure.
	www.salon.com /april97/sneaks/sneak970424.html (476 words)

	Arundhati Roy -- ZNet Iraq Watch
		Arundhati Roy is an author and activist from India.
		Other books by Roy include Power Politics (2001), an excellent examination on the role of artists and intellectuals in society, as well as The Cost of Living (1999) and War Talk.
		Internationally acclaimed writer and activist Arundhati Roy is interviewed by ZNet commentator Anthony Arnove.
	www.zmag.org /CrisesCurEvts/Iraq/arundhati_roy.htm (298 words)

	Amazon.fr : The God of Small Things: Livres en anglais: Arundhati Roy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		While Roy's powers of description are formidable, she sometimes succumbs to overwriting, forcing every minute detail to symbolize something bigger, and the pace of the story slows.
		Roy's clarity of vision is remarkable, her voice original, her story beautifully constructed and masterfully told.
		Roy has for sure a very original style...Her novel is a like a puzzle, and we find different pieces of the story in every page...
	www.amazon.fr /God-Small-Things-Arundhati-Roy/dp/0006550681 (731 words)

	We. Unauthorized Arundhati Roy - The Documentary.
		It visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous Come September speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest.
		Roy and images of humanity in the world we live all in today.
		Arundhati Roy on Palestinian / Israeli Conflict
	www.weroy.org (201 words)

	South End Press \| Power Politics
		Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, explores the politics of writing and the human and environmental costs of development in Power Politics.
		Roy challenges the idea that only experts can speak out on such urgent matters as nuclear war, the privatization of India’s power supply by Enron—now the center of a major national controversy over its corrupt business practices— and the construction of monumental dams in India, which will dislocate millions of people.
		Arundhati Roy challenges elites in India and the United States on such urgent matters as nuclear war, the privatization of India’s power supply by Enron, and the “war on terrorism.”
	www.southendpress.org /books/powerpolitics.shtml (845 words)

	Arundhati Roy - Booker Prize winner from Kerala,India
		Now in her late-30s, living in Delhi, Arundhati Roy (One of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World 1998") grew up in Kerala, in which her award winning novel "The God of Small Things" is set.
		The End of Imagination : Arundhati Roy muses about the nuclear tests conducted by India, her success and being Indian.
		Arundhati Roy in a lengthy conversation with Vir Sanghvi, editor Sunday magazine about her life and the book.
	aroy.miena.com (1058 words)

	Salon \| Arundhati Roy
		She's Arundhati Roy, and she's remarkably tiny -- hovering around 5-foot-2 -- despite the fl platform shoes she's wearing and new literary lioness persona.
		Now in her mid-30s, Roy grew up in Kerala, the Marxist Indian state in which "The God of Small Things" is set.
		The daughter of a Syrian Christian mother, a divorcee who managed a tea plantation (just like the character of Ammu in Roy's novel), Roy didn't attend school until she was 10.
	www.salon.com /sept97/00roy.html (428 words)

	Hampshire College: Media Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hampshire College invites the public to hear the thoughts of Arundhati Roy on "A Writer's Place in Politics" when the Booker Prize-winning author delivers the Third Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture on Thursday, February 15 at 4 p.m.
		Roy, who lives in New Delhi, was the first woman Indian author, and the first non-expatriate Indian, to have her work recognized with the Booker Prize, which her debut novel, "The God of Small Things," won in 1997.
		She dares to write critically about massive dam projects that were supposed to move India into the modern age but have instead displaced millions, and on detonation of India's first nuclear bomb.
	www.hampshire.edu /news/hin/126roylecture.shtml (256 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Vir Sanghvi meets Arundhati Roy, the hottest literary talent in town
		Arundhati Roy is the latest Indian writer to make international headlines.
		Roy got involved in --- or more accurately, created -- the debate over Bandit Queen when she wrote two pieces for Sunday.
		Roy says now that she was never very confident about the book.
	www.rediff.com /news/apr/05roy.htm (881 words)

	AlterNet: Arundhati Roy: Back In the U.S.A.
		Author/activist Arundhati Roy discusses President Bush's embarrassing trip to India, the war in Iraq, and why she avoids America.
		Arundhati Roy has also become known across the globe for her powerful political essays.
		That's why he was annoyed at Arundhati, that she had the nerve to mention it.
	www.alternet.org /story/36643 (7503 words)

	Arundhati Roy: Why we should support Iraqi resistance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Arundhati Roy is not an Australian, but she has voiced majority Australian opinion by eloquently opposing the invasion of Iraq.
		Roy became a passionate advocate of the Save the Narmada Movement (NBA), standing shoulder-to-shoulder with poor villagers in central India, donating the equivalent of her Booker Prize money to the NBA.
		In a speech entitled ‘‘Public Power in the Age of Empire'' that she gave in San Francisco on August 16, Roy explained that ‘‘it is absurd to condemn the resistance to the US occupation in Iraq, as being masterminded by terrorists...
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2004/605/605p28.htm (1343 words)

	South End Press \| War Talk
		Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, addresses issues of democracy and dissent, racism and empire, and war and peace in this collection of new essays.
		In fact she was jailed in March 2002, when India's Supreme Court found Roy in contempt of the court after months of attempting to silence her criticism of the government.
		Arundhati Roy has an exceptional talent to turn facts, names, and even...
	www.southendpress.org /books/wartalk.shtml (675 words)

	Arundhati Roy - Biography
		Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, activist and a world citizen.
		Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father, a tea planter by profession.
		She then proceeded to study architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture, where she met her first husband, the architect Gerard Da Cunha.
	weroy.org /arundhati.shtml (353 words)

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