Talk:Arundhati Roy

Arundhati is a Practicing Syrian Christian

Miss arundhati roy is a practicing syrian christian and she confirmed this on a show called "Indian Journeys - Doubting thomas" hosted by William Dalrymple. Someone please do the needful and add a religion line below her born/occupation/nationality list. Her name gives wrong impressions. thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Unknownbroadway (talk • contribs) 19:29, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

If someone has a doubt then please watch a series of documentaries of william dalrymple's travels in india where he has an interview with arundhati roy. The show has a repeated telecast on fox history & entertainment. Unknownbroadway (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 07:10, 14 January 2010 (UTC).

Updated Arundhati Roy's Biography

Biography Contribution to Roy Article

[edit] Attention: We are students currently working on Roy's Biography on behalf of a English Seminar Project, any further contributions would be appreciated. We wanted to add to her biography but had difficulties with the format and citations. However, we still wanted to contribute what we researched to Roy's page. We have provided parenthetical citations as well as a works cited page, so our sources can be available. Due to citing difficulties, any further help with potentially citing our information on Roy's wikipedia page will be greatly appreciated.

Susanna Arundhati Roy was born on November 24, 1959 in Shillong, Meghalaya,[1] India, to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother, the women's rights activist Mary Roy, and a Bengali father, a tea planter by profession. Roy’s parents divorced when she and her brother, Lalith were children (Rao 1). Roy responds to her mother being characterized as an “unconventional woman” by stating she married a man who “was a Bengali Hindu and what’s worse she divorced him, which meant that everyone was confirmed in their opinion that it was a terrible thing to do in the first place…I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, ‘Whatever you do, don’t get married” (Barsamain 2). Roy states that growing up she had, “No father, no presence of this man telling us that he would look after us and beat us occasionally in exchange. I didn’t have a caste, and I didn’t have a class, and I had no religion, no traditional blinkers, no traditional lenses on my spectacles, which are very hard to shrug off” (Barsamian 2). Roy’s mother became “well-known in Kerala because in 1986 after winning a public interest litigation case challenging the Syrian Christian inheritance law that said a woman can inherit one-fourth of her father’s property or 5,000.00 rupees, which ever is less. The Supreme Court actually handed down a verdict that gave women equal inheritance retroactive to 1956” (Barsamian 3). Mary Roy started a school called Corpus Christi (Rao 1). Arundhati Roy was educated at her mother’s school and was the only person in the class at one point (Frumkes 1). Roy describes her mother’s achievements by stating, “She runs a school and it’s phenomenally successful-people book their children in it before they are born-they don’t know what to do with, or me” (Barsamian 3). Roy eventually continued her education at the Lawrence School, Lovedale, in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. Arundhati Roy left home at the age of sixteen, to live on her own (Rao 2). Roy states “I grew up in Kerala. It was a nightmare for me. All I wanted to do was to escape, to get out to never have to marry somebody there…I was the worst thing a girl could be: thin, black and clever” (Barsamian 2). Roy eventually decided to study at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. While attending school, Roy lived with a group of young people (Frumkes 2). They lived in a slum colony within the walls of a monument (Frumkes 2). In describing this point of her life Roy states “we had no money but we had a lot of fun. When you’re that young, somehow the future does not scare you. You just live day to day” (Frumkes 2). It was at The School of Architecture where she first met her husband, Gerard D. Cunha (Rao 2). While they were married the couple embarked to Goa on the coast of India where they made and sold cakes to tourists for seven months (Rao 2). However, Roy ended their marriage within four years (Rao 2). Roy eventually found a job with the National Institute of Urban Affairs (Rao 2). Roy met her second husband, filmmaker Pradip Krishen, in 1984, and played a village girl in this award winning movie Massey Sahib. Roy eventually teamed up with her husband to write a screenplay for a television series (Rao 2). Unfortunately the idea failed, but she continued to write more screenplays which resulted in several films including “In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones” and “Electric Moon” (Rao 3).

Works Cited

Barsamian David. “Interview with Arundhati Roy”. April 2001. <http://www.progressive.org/intv0401.html>

Frumkes, Lewis Burke. “A conversation with Arundhati Roy.” The Writer. 111.11 (Nov. 1998): p23. Literature Resource Center. Gale. ST. JOHNS UNIV. 8 Apr. 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=jama62549>.

Rao, E. Nageswara. "Arundhati Roy." South Asian Writers in English. Ed. Fakrul Alam. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 323. Detroit: Gale, 2006. Literature Resource Center. Gale. ST JOHNS UNIV. 14 May 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=jama62549>.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Law1221/Sandbox" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Law1221 (talk • contribs) 21:45, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

The following extract from a 2005 online report seems to expand on a brief statement made at the end of the preceding report: that the Banyan Tree TV serial was not completed, at least not under that name.

“She linked up with Krishen, now her husband, and they planned a 26-episode television epic for Doordarshan called 'The Banyan Tree'. The independent production company ITV advanced the money. Unfortunately, they had only shot enough footage for three or four episodes when ITV scrapped the serial. However, Bhaskar Ghose, then director-general of Doordarshan, met Roy who told him that she wanted to write, but that she didn't think anyone would finance her kind of screenplays. Ghose agreed to finance the deal and the result was the film 'In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones'.” [1] (Note: Scroll down this article.)

In another report (purportedly from 1997) the following is stated: "Much of this getting ready, like the discipline that anchors a writer, would initially come through crafting screen plays - 'The Banyan Tree' a television epic for which she wrote 26 episodes but was never done, and the films Annie and Electric Moon." [2]</ref> Ombudswiki (talk) 06:37, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Arundhati Roy is Prannoy Roy's niece or cousin?

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundhati_Roy" says: Arundhati Roy is a niece of prominent media personality Prannoy Roy but "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prannoy_Roy" says: Prannoy Roy is the cousin of the prize winning Indian writer Arundhati Roy. Dr Roy's father and Arundhati's father are brothers. Now, which one is correct? 125.17.174.6 (talk) 13:27, 19 May 2009 (UTC)Malar Kannan 19-May-2009

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hopiakuta Please do sign your communiqué .~~Thank You, DonFphrnqTaub Persina. 01:30, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Cleaned up article and added more info

@Geniac, i have not deleted any info but simply added more info which is widely known in india. If you have any questions, i will answer them here.Unknownbroadway (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:51, 17 January 2010 (UTC).

Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments. Such edits are disruptive and appear to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. --Geniac (talk) 19:07, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Stop deleting what i've added to the article. Like i said before, talk it out here and i'll stop reverting it back else what your doing is vandalism.Unknownbroadway (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:43, 18 January 2010 (UTC).

Added citations.Unknownbroadway (talk) 15:01, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

None of your citations support the statement, it's pure synthesis. If she's "known" for something, multiple sources need to document it that way. Stop adding your POV to the article. -SpacemanSpiff 16:47, 18 January 2010 (UTC)