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Arundhati Roy is a writer, novelist and political activist from [[India]]. She has a Syrian Malabar Nasrani (Nazarean) Christian heritage.  She one the [[Booker Prize]] in 1997 for her first novel, ''The God of Small Things.''

Arundhati Roy is a writer, novelist and political activist from [[India]]. She has a Syrian Malabar Nasrani (Nazarean) Christian heritage.  She won the [[Booker Prize]] in 1997 for her first novel, ''The God of Small Things.''

She is known for her leftist politics, having written strident criticisms of American and Israeli foreign policy.  She has recently expressed enthusiastic support for Islamic terrorist Mohammad Afzal, who was part of a brutal terrorist attack on the Parliament of India, and who presently stands ready to be hanged for his actions. Roy has evoked numerous Indophobic canards in her support for terrorists (India is among the most heavily targeted countries by Islamic terrorist groups), as evidenced by her diatribes in the English newspaper ''The Guardian'' <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,,1972788,00.html India's shame], Arundhati Roy, ''The Guardian'', December 15, 2006. </ref>  Her polemics have earned her significant criticisms from conservative groups in India[http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1830995,0008.htm] and in the United States[http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020429&s=buruma042902].

She is known for her leftist politics, having written strident criticisms of American and Israeli foreign policy.  She has recently expressed enthusiastic support for Islamic terrorist Mohammad Afzal, who was part of a brutal terrorist attack on the Parliament of India, and who presently stands ready to be hanged for his actions. Roy has evoked numerous Indophobic canards in her support for terrorists (India is among the most heavily targeted countries by Islamic terrorist groups), as evidenced by her diatribes in the English newspaper ''The Guardian'' <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,,1972788,00.html India's shame], Arundhati Roy, ''The Guardian'', December 15, 2006. </ref>  Her polemics have earned her significant criticisms from conservative groups in India[http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1830995,0008.htm] and in the United States[http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020429&s=buruma042902].