THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS

BY Teja Reddy

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Childhood:

• Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author and political activist

• Best known for the 1998 Man Booker Prize for Fiction winning novel The God of Small Things (1997)

• Involves in environmental and human rights causes.

Early Life:• Born: Shillong, Meghalaya, India.

• Parents : Ranjit Roy, a Bengali Hindu tea planter and Mary Roy, a Malayali Syrian Christian women's rights activist.

• Childhood: Aymanam in Kerala

• Schooling : at Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed by the Lawrence School, Lovedale, in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu.

• Studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, where she met her first husband, architect Gerard da Cunha.

Background:

• Roy met her second husband, filmmaker Pradip Krishen, in 1984, and played a village girl in his award-winning movie Massey Sahib.

• Cousin of prominent media personality Prannoy Roy, the head of the leading Indian TV media group NDTV .

Career:

• Worked for televison and movies. • Wrote screen play for movies.• She began to write her first novel The God of

Small Things, in 1992, completing it in 1996.• It reached fourth position on the New York

Times Bestsellers list for Independent Fiction

Career:

• It has received several awards from Los Angels Time, Toronto Star and TIME

• Later after the success of her book, she was involved in making a screenplay for movies.

• In the year 2002 a documentary film released by name “A Film with Arundhati Roy “

• And in the year 2009 again a book released on the name of “A Celebration of Tribal Peoples”. The book explores the culture of peoples around the world, portraying their diversity and the threats to their existence.

Political views:

• Support for Kashmiri separatism• Sardar Sarovar Project• United States foreign policy, the War in Afghanistan• India's nuclear weaponisation• Criticism of Israel• 2001 Indian Parliament attack• The Muthanga incident• Views on the Naxalites

Political views:

• Criticism of Anna Hazare• Sedition charges• Above all mentioned views are some of the

advocacy and controversy views on which she commented and given some statement.

Awards:

• Awarded the 1997 Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things.

• Won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay in 1989 for “In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones”.

• In 2003, she was awarded 'special recognition' as a Woman of Peace at the Global Exchange Human Rights Awards in San Francisco.

• The Sydney Peace Prize in May 2004 for her work in social campaigns and her advocacy of non-violence.

Awards:

• In November 2011, she was awarded the Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing.