Susanna Arundhati Roy (born: November 24, 1961) is an English writer and philanthropist. She has also acted in a few films. Arundhati Roy, who received the Booker Prize for "The God of Small Things", has participated in other people's movements in India including the Narmada Bachao Andolan besides writing.
Her translated books are Mathematics of Justice, Hurt Country, Democracy in the Watchtower. Recently her book The Docter and the saint: The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate is in the discussion which has been translated by Professor Ratanlal as "Ek Tha Doctor Ek Tha Sant".
Arundhati Roy was born on 24 November 1961 in Shillong to the Syrian Christian mother of Kerala, Mary Roy, and Bengali Hindu father Rajib Roy, a resident of Calcutta. When she was two, her parents divorced and she moved to Kerala with her mother and brother. Her mother was a women's rights activist and her father was a tea garden manager. Arundhati spent the first days of her life in Kerala.
She then studied Architecture in Delhi. She started her career with acting. She played the lead role in the film Massey Sahab. Apart from this, she also wrote scripts for several films. In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989), Electric Moon (1992) was well received. When she received the Booker Prize for the novel God of Small Things in 1979, the attention of the literary world went to her.