Arundhati Roy

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Does Arundhati Roy smoke?: Yes Arundhati Roy while smoking cigarette.Does Arundhati Roy drink alcohol?: Yes.Arundhati Roy is a renowned Indian author and novelist. She is the winner of 1997 the Man Booker Prize for her first fiction novel The God of Small Things. She is also a political activist who actively raises her voice against several environmental issues and human rights crusades in India and globally.She was born to a Bengali Hindu father and a Syrian Christian mother in Shillong, a hill village in the far northeast of India.Her father was a tea plantation manager from Calcutta and her mother was a womens rights activist from Kerala.Roys father was an alcoholic and when Arundhati was 2-years old, her parents divorced. Her mother brought Arundhati back to the family home in Kerala with her older brother, Lalit.Arundhati grew up in Kerala and was very much influenced by her mother, Mary, who was a lifetime campaigner for womens rights and the founder of a prominent school.At the age of 16, she left home and enrolled in an architecture college in Delhi where she met an architect named Gerard da Cunha. The two lived together in Delhi, and then Goa, and then broke up.She returned to Delhi and started working at the National Institute of Urban Affairs.In 1984, Roy met Pradip Krishen (an Independent Filmmaker) who offered her a role as a goatherd in his award-winning movie Massey Sahib.