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	Arundhati Roy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father.
		She spent her childhood in Aymanam in Kerala.
		She left Kerala for Delhi at age 16, and embarked on a bohemian lifestyle, staying in a small hut with a tin roof and making a living selling empty beer bottles.
	www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/ar/arundhati_roy.html (442 words)

	Woman of the month
		Suzanna Arundhati Roy was born on the 24th November 1961, the child of a marriage between a Christian woman from Kerala and a Bengali Hindu tea planter.
		There, her mother Mary Roy (later a well-known social activist) ran an informal school named Corpus Christi where Arundhati developed her literary and intellectual abilities unconstrained by the set rules of formal education.
		Aymanam is no longer the old-fashioned village of the sixties in which the novel is set.
	www.onlinebangalore.com /life/women/forthnight/women21.html (399 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Who's Ammu?
		But Aymanam, the somnolent village that comes alive in the book, is a picture of still life.
		He lives close to the Aymanam temple which figures in the novel as a pre-eminent venue for the annual Kathakali festival.
		Yet to the common folk of Aymanam, Arundhati is an unfamiliar name splashed on their consciousness by a ubiquitous media.
	www.rediff.com /news/oct/18booker.htm (859 words)

	The Ponnattu Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the 6th Century of the Malayalam Era, Ittyavira Panicker of the Mylokkombil family settled down in the Parayil property of Aymanam.
		The Matteethara family of Aymanam is thought to be a branch of this family.
		One member of the Madasserry family with the name, Varkey married the only daughter (dattu) of a Pulikkaparambil man. Later his mother in law had a male child, and the father-in-law bought the Pathil property for the couple, thus the Pathil family was founded.
	ponnattu.com (6304 words)

	Kerala Backwater Resorts Kumarakom \| Ayurveda \| Honeymoon Tour Packages Kerala
		Backwater Resort is located in Aymanam in Kumarakom which forms the backdrop of Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize winner novel "The God Of Small Things".
		This Resort is the only one which stands on the banks of the River described in Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize novel.
		Visitors from various nations throng to the famous natural setting of Aymanam Village described in the Booker Prize Novel.
	www.keralabackwaterresorts.com (707 words)

	Arundhati Roy
		Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, where her father, a Bengali, was a tea planter.
		She was brought up at Aymanam, 10 minutes' drive from Kottayam in Kerala, after her parents separated.
		A victim of broken home, Arundhati spent her crucial childhood years in Ayemanam and studied in an informal school named Corpus Christie run by her mother.
	www.keral.com /celebrities/arun/childhood.htm (93 words)

	Rediff On The NeT Elections '98: Goddess of Small Things hasn't had any effect on Aymanem electorate
		Even local leaders of the Aymanam village, where the novel has been set, do not believe Roy's comment that Namboodiripad converted his ancestral house into a hotel.
		Aymanam Communist Party of India-Marxist local committee secretary Mohanan said the author, who lived in Kerala, could not have been unaware of the facts.
		Aymanam's villagers are thrilled, though many have not read the novel.
	www.rediff.com /news/1998/feb/26arund.htm (474 words)

	Backwater Retreat - The Theme House - Kerala, India
		The Backwater retreat is located at the confluence of 3 rivers merging in the Kumarakom lake.
		Located in a perfectly eco-friendly setting on the banks of rivers and lakes, the retreat is in Aymanam village, Kumarakom, 7 kilometres from Kottayam town.
		The lush greenery and the chill waters in the rivers surrounding the retreat carry you to inexplicable ecstatic moods.
	www.hostelz.com /hotel/39107-Backwater-Retreat---The-Theme-House (380 words)

	Arundhati Roy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Roy was born in Assam to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father, a tea planter by profession.
		She spent her childhood in Aymanam in Kerala, and went to school in Corpus Christi.
		She received half a million pounds as an advance, and rights to the book were sold in 21 countries.
	www.syossetnyus.com /info/Arundhati_Roy (1046 words)

	Small Resorts, Homestays and Houseboats In Kerala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pooppallys Heritage Homestay and Kuttanadu River Resort are situated on a backwater canal.
		Aymanam Village Resort is an example of a country side farm on a backwater canal with heritage interiors.
		The Village House at Thrissur is a good example of such a retreat.
	www.nivalink.com /kerala/kerala3.html (1189 words)

	Village of `God of Small Things' captured in camera - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The pristine surroundings where Arundhati Roy set her characters Ammu and Velutha or Estha and Rahel may be waging a losing battle against modernism to preserve the purity.
		If the snap titled 'June in Aymanam' is a rare glimpse that can repeat for ever, the banks where Estha and Rahel learnt fishing looked the same in the lens of Razack.
		The history house or the Aymanam house ("with its steep gabled roof pulled over its ears like a low hat''), now entwined in a legal battle, reminds the same old ghost house of the novel while thickly green banks of the river looks equally inspiring in the frames as it once stirred young Arundhati.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/sep112005/update95392005911.asp (669 words)

	Arundhati Roy
		Taking four-and-a-half years to write 'The God of Small Things', replete with autobiographical elements, she finished it in May 1996.
		Arundhati exposed Kerala to the entire world, particularly, Aymanam, her hometown.
		The story she tells is fundamental as well as local.
	www.keral.com /celebrities/arun/book.htm (149 words)

	Education - Personality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As a voracious and mature reader she was comfortable reading Shakespeare’s plays at the tender age of ten.
		Born in 1961 to a Keralite Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father, Suzanna Arundhati Roy’s life was influenced more by her mother Mary Roy who after getting divorced from her husband, took Arundhati along with her to the village Aymanam, in Kerala, which was her place of origin.
		Roy spent her crucial childhood years in Aymanam and this small village in Kerala served as the backdrop of her story in The God of Small Things.
	www.indbazaar.com /education/personality.asp?catid=3&artid=21 (942 words)

	Light of Life - Articles
		He did not show any great promise in his studies but he was an active child with full of boyish pranks for which he received due punishment from his judicial father.
		He had once a lucky escape from being drowned in the Aymanam River now famous through Arundhati Roy's award winning novel, 'God of Small things' - along with his younger sister whom he encouraged to swim with him.
		He enjoyed his stay as a boarder as he had plenty of opportunity to swim in the Aymanam river even in difficult conditions.
	www.lightoflife.com /LOL_Arch_Juhanon_Marthoma.htm (7810 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Junior Observer
		Suzanna Arundhati Roy, born on November 24, 1961, is the daughter of a Christian woman from Kerala and a Bengali Hindu tea planter.
		Arundhati spent the most important period of her childhood years in Aymanam.
		There, her mother Mary Roy (later a well-known social activist) ran an informal school named Corpus Christi where Arundhati developed her literary and intellectual abilities.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2005/11/06/juniorob02.html (1242 words)

	God of Small Things
		Written by Arundhati Roy and published in 1997, this prize winning novel is set in Roy's hometown of Aymanam, where Paradise Pickles still stands.
		The story covers the lives of a pair of twins who experience loss at an early age, and find redemption as adults.
		Arundhati grew up in Aymanam, until she was 16 years old, when she ran away to live in a squatter's camp.
	www.wmich.edu /dialogues/texts/godofsmallthings.html (1881 words)

	Author Arundhati Roy to give reading: 4/99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy will give a free public reading of her work at 7 p.m.
		Raised in Aymanam, a town in central Kerala, India, Roy attended the Delhi School of Architecture before taking a small part in a film and becoming a screenwriter.
		Her first film, In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, was directed by her husband, Pradeep Krishen.
	www.stanford.edu /group/news/report/news/1999/april28/arundhati-428.html (143 words)

	A Journey To Jerusalem by Parumala Thirumeni
		During the early decades of 19th century Father Chavara Kuriakose Elias, Bishop Dr. Marsaleenos and others adopted the Malayalam prose of the common masses.
		Those scholars who had proficiency in the English language like Dr. Gundert, Rev.George Mathan, Archadeacon Koshy, Kandathil Varghese Mappilai, Aymanam P.John, Kalloor Oommen Philipose and the like, reformed the spoken Malayalam of the times and thus opened a new style of Malayalam prose.
		The Malayalam prose, which developed through this process, is certainly available in Oorslem Yathra Vivaranam.
	jtsoftware.tripod.com /jj2.htm (521 words)

	Sapna Anu B George Ameature Indian Writer in Doha!
		In that true spirit she has a keen interest in writing both in English and Malayalam..Kottayam is a place from where the maximum number of vernacular publications are printed.
		The award winning author Arundhathi Roy hails from Aymanam, in the same district.
		Kottayam is the land of rubber plantations, letters and even the famous lagoons of Kumarakam resort.
	www.keralamonitor.com /sapnaprofile.html (982 words)

	Review On God Of Small Things, The - Arundhati Roy by suyog - MouthShut.com
		One fine day, Rahel comes to know that Estha was to come back to her for her father doesn’t want to take care of him.
		An adult Rahel now comes back to old place, Aymanam, to see the barren household, hopelessly lost house.
		That itself is the beginning of the book, a sad Rahel coming back to her decimated household to await her brother.
	www.mouthshut.com /review/God_Of_Small_Things___The_-_Arundhati_Roy-42671-1.html (1182 words)

	Arundhati Roy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A few kilometres from Kottayam town in central Kerala (see map below) lies Aymanam village, which forms a part of Arundhati Roy's 'Ayemenem country'.
		Arundhati borrowed brick and timber from two old buildings in the village, Puliyampallil House and Shanti House to construct her 'Ayemenem House'.
		Paradise Pickles and The History House are also based on real buildings, albeit reported through the filter of her imagination.
	website.lineone.net /~jon.simmons/roy/tgost2b.htm (66 words)

	A home away from home for a pleasant and peacefull stay
		We offer multicusine kitchen with variety of dishes, farm fresh vegetables and fruits and mosquito free rooms.
		Our homestay unit is situated at the bank of river Meenachil (Aymanam) just 3 kms away from the fast developing picnic spots as Vembanad lake, Midnight sand and the Kumarakom birds sanctuary and 8 kms from Kottayam town and 85 kms from Cochin Airport and 110 kms to Thekkady Wild Life.
		This village is an unbelievable beautiful paradise of mangrove forests, Emerald green paddy (rice) fields and coconut groves interspersed with enchanting water ways and canals adorned with spicy and medicinal plants.
	www.kottayam.com /homestay/gk (364 words)

	The Hindu : Kerala / Kochi News : Reporter's Diary
		The late poetess Balamaniyamma can truly be described as the Nightingale of Kerala.
		The saying goes - "Behind every man's success, there is a woman" - but in this case, it was her husband, the late V.M. Nair, who gave her the necessary support and encouragement to blossom as a poetess, recalls Thangam Jacob of Aymanam, who is an old friend of the Nairs.
		She says that she was fortunate to be associated with the family for decades.
	www.hindu.com /2004/10/12/stories/2004101214930300.htm (793 words)

	Review On 5 Best Books by gaurav_ - MouthShut.com
		Roy’s novel was published 1996, quickly became a best-seller, and won the prestigious Booker Prize in October, 1997.
		Its plot revolves around the story of two sisters in the small place Aymanam (called ’’Ayemenem’’ in the novel).
		It contains how small things appear in our lives and become a part of it.
	www.mouthshut.com /review/5_Best_Books-93184-1.html (555 words)

	Bill's Big Diamond Blog: Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Arundhati Roy has worked as a film designer, actor, screenwriter, and novelist, all with the background of a student of architecture.
		She comes from the small village of Aymanam in Kerala, India, and now resides in New Delhi.
		Her sensibility and literary fame stem from her childhood experience in Aymanam.
	billsrants.typepad.com /my_weblog/politics (10229 words)

	Arundhati Roy Biography
		Born circa 1960, Roy grew up in Aymanam, a village in the state of Kerala, in southern India.
		Her father, a Hindu tea planter from Bengal, was divorced from her Syrian Christian mother when Roy was very young, and Roy was raised by her mother, who ran an informal school.
		Simply highlight the word and press SHIFT + D for a definition.
	www.enotes.com /god-small/126965 (150 words)

	CMLIT 101 Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Allows to keep certain events, but adds more detail
		Born in 1961 in the city of Aymanam.
		Her mother was in charge of the school where she gained her education.
	www.personal.psu.edu /pao114/cmpsc100/part1/classnotes2.htm (531 words)

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