Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and activist whose writings have been inspirational to many of us at Jeff Street. She has been a vocal opponent to Bush’s Iraq invasion and an advocate for the poor around the world.

Her novel, The God of Small Things, won the prestigious Booker Award.

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An excerpt of her beautiful writing in God of Small Things:

May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dust green trees. Red bananas ripen.Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun.