Who is Arundhati Roy from the book, Field Notes on Democracy?

Arundhati Roy is an author of both fiction and non-fiction works. Roy was born in 1961 in the northeastern state of Meghalaya, which was then Assam. She is most famous for her 1997 novel, The God of Small Things, for which she won the Man Booker Prize, and has recently published her second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. In 2004, Roy won the Sydney Peace Prize for her political work and non-violent advocacy. She has also been listed as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People.