It's kind of interesting how this blog is working out. Women come across my facebook page, my twitter feed, my radio. Margaret Sanger was in an interview with Mike Wallace which was on NPR recently because of Wallace's passing. Someone on facebook recently quoted bell hooks, so I used her that day, Camilla Vallejo came across my twitter feed. If I were a betting person, I'd bet that these are not just mistakes...that they are part of the interconnected web of all existence...yadda, yadda.... Today's Acquaintance, Arundhati Roy, came across facebook today from my friend, Karen Leslie Hernandez . I love it when names that I don't recognize pass through my day. I'm betting that you like it, too, because that's when I get the most hits here on the website: when I post the more obscure names. So here's some information about Arundhati Roy: She is an Indian novelist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays. Her writings on various social, environmental and political issues have been a subject of major controversy in India. Arundhati Roy was awarded the 1997 Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things. The award carried a prize of about US $30,000 and a citation that noted, 'The book keeps all the promises that it makes.' Prior to this, she won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay in 1989, for the screenplay of In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones.In 2002, she won the Lannan Foundation's Cultural Freedom Award for her work "about civil societies that are adversely affected by the world’s most powerful governments and corporations," in order "to celebrate her life and her ongoing work in the struggle for freedom, justice and cultural diversity."In 2003, she was awarded 'special recognition' as a Woman of Peace at the Global Exchange Human Rights Awards in San Francisco with Bianca Jagger, Barbara Lee and Kathy Kelly.Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in May 2004 for her work in social campaigns and her advocacy of non-violence.In January 2006, she was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, a national award from India's Academy of Letters, for her collection of essays on contemporary issues, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, but she declined to accept it "in protest against the Indian Government toeing the US line by 'violently and ruthlessly pursuing policies of brutalisation of industrial workers, increasing militarisation and economic neo-liberalisation.'"In November 2011, she was awarded the Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing.She is also an accomplished activist working in these areas: Supporting Kashmiri seperatism, working against the Narmanda dam project, speaking against India's nuclear weaponization, criticising Israel's war in Lebanon, and many other political commentaries, including the May 2003 speech she delivered entitled "Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy (Buy One, Get One Free)" at the Riverside Church in New York City. In it she described the United States as a global empire that reserves the right to bomb any of its subjects at any time, deriving its legitimacy directly from God. The speech was an indictment of the U.S. actions relating to the Iraq War. In June 2005 she took part in the World Tribunal on Iraq. In March 2006, Roy criticized US President George W. Bush's visit to India, calling him a "war criminal".So far, she has published 15 books, and has given many speeches and interviews. You can find out more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundhati_Roy
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