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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)[reply]

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).[reply]

Birth date of Miss A.Roy

Hello everybody,

For your information... reading this article with some attention I was surprised to see at the beginning:"Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November, 1961)" then, in the References section, under point 1., this link: "^ a b "Arundhati Roy, 1959 -". The South Asian Literary Recordings ", leading to an article that begings with: "Arundhati Roy, born in 1959 at Shillong,..." Hum, doesn't seam very serious...

Now, as I am (right now) reading a compilation book of her articles, and by some coincidence just (also right now) at about the end of the one "the loneliness of Noam Chomsky" (sorry in the case my translation wouldn't be totally correct, I'm reading it in french), I see that She wrote that she was born in 1959. At about one and a half page of the end of this article (depending on your edition): "Child, I grew up in Kerala, a state in the south of India - where the first communist government in the world that was democratically elected came to power in 1959, year of my birth - and I was terribly..."

With best regards, marc —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.129.3.135 (talk) 19:19, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No clue when she was born but the quote above only appears to say that the first communist government in the world .. came to power in 1959 and is not inconsistent with a 1961 year of birth. --RegentsPark (My narrowboat) 20:08, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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[reply]