Arundhati Roy
HRD, Author
Arundhati Roy is a widely known Indian author and activist. She won the 1997 Booker Prize for her debut novel The God of Small Things. She has also published several books, articles and essays focusing on the effects of global capitalism and the corporatization and militarization on India’s disadvantaged minorities, particularly Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims. Arundhati Roy has been vocal against rights violations commited by the Indian government’s against of Kashmiri civilians, including the unilateral abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomous statehood in 2019.