Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, author of The God of Small Things, for which she won the Booker Prize. Born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a 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. She then proceeded to study architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture.

Roy is also a well known peace activist. One of her first essays was in response to India's testing of nuclear weapons in Pokhran, Rajasthan. The essay, titled The End of Imagination, is a critique against the Indian government's nuclear policies.

In Germany she gaind additional fame, because a guy from television (Ulrich Wickert) quoted from her bokks, saying "Bin Laden and Bush are similiar minded". He had to appologise in public...

Downloads: I collected all the articles she wrote for "Outlook India" during August '98 and April 2003 and converted them to a handy book-style pdf file. ROY (application/pdf, 941 KB)

Links:

• More info on A. Roy
• All her articles from OutlookIndia.com
  
• All her articles from Guardian Unlimited