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Can We Leave the Bauxite in the Mountain? Field Notes on Democracy
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prominent voice in the anti-globalization/alter-globalization movement and a vehement critic critic vehement a and movement anti-globalization/alter-globalization the in voice prominent
weapons policy, and Enron power company’s activities in India. She is a a is She India. in activities company’s power Enron and policy, weapons
political issues. These include the Narmada Dam project, India’s nuclear nuclear India’s project, Dam Narmada the include These issues. political
winning the Booker Prize, Roy has concentrated her writing on on writing her concentrated has Roy Prize, Booker the winning
later studied architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture. Since Since Architecture. of School Delhi the at architecture studied later
in Aymanam, in Kerala, but left Kerala for Delhi at the age of 16. She She 16. of age the at Delhi for Kerala left but Kerala, in Aymanam, in
Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father. She spent her childhood childhood her spent She father. Hindu Bengali a and mother Christian
. Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Keralite Syrian Syrian Keralite a to Meghalaya Shillong, in born was Roy . Small Things Small
She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel novel first her for 1997 in Prize Booker the won She The God of of God The
Arundhati Roy Arundhati is an Indian novelist, activist and world citizen. citizen. world and activist novelist, Indian an is
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