Word: arundhati
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When the English language was planted in South Asia, who knew it would bloom with such fecundity? From the riots of Salman Rushdie to the florid sagas of Vikram Seth and the humid prose of Arundhati Roy, much of the best subcontinental writing has embraced a hothouse style, the kind of Victorian grandness long forgotten by the English themselves. When the empire wrote back, it was never at a loss for words...
Unlike fellow former British colonies India and Pakistan, Malaysia has yet to produce a Vikram Seth or an Arundhati Roy. There has been no writer of international stature, or even a literary canon?in Bahasa or English?that one could call Malaysian. The Rice Mother, a delicious fictional cocktail packed with Malaysian flavors, may finally put the country on the global publishing map. Plainly, debut novelist Rani Manicka has studied other Asia-themed best sellers such as Wild Swans and The Joy Luck Club to produce a family saga centered on the tempestuous relationships between mothers and their children...
...Arundhati Roy, Delhi resident and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things, recently wrote in an Indian magazine about how she would not join the huge groups of affluent Indians and foreign diplomats who were leaving the country when the threat of a nuclear war in South Asia was looming large (a threat that I like to believe does not exist anymore). She said that if she were to leave, and New Delhi were to be obliterated by a nuclear bomb, then she would never be able to bear the loss of all her friends...
...RELEASED. ARUNDHATI ROY, acclaimed Indian novelist jailed for a day for contempt of court, after she paid a $42 fine to avoid serving another three months; in New Delhi. Roy, who in 1997 won Britain's Booker Prize for her first novel, The God of Small Things, was convicted for criticizing a Supreme Court decision to approve a controversial hydroelectric project...
...their celebrity to draw attention to environmental issues. TV actor TED DANSON founded the American Oceans Campaign, Academy Award winner SUSAN SARANDON is an avid supporter of Mark Plotkin's Amazon Conservation Team, STING throws an annual rain-forest benefit concert in New York City's Carnegie Hall, writer ARUNDHATI ROY has campaigned to stop the building of dams on India's Narmada River, Hong Kong actor CHOW YUN-FAT has done promotional work for the World Wildlife Fund, and Brazilian singer GILBERTO GIL was so worried about water pollution in his hometown of Salvador, Bahia, that he joined...