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Top 10 Indian Writers in English
By siliconindia
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Saturday, 22 October 2011, 01:29 IST |
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Arundhati Roy
If Rushdie has enlightened Indian writing from shackles of colonial limitations, Arundhati Roy"s book "The God of Small Things" drastically changed insight concerning Indian authors with her viable victory. She touched glory with her first book itself, which to an extent is an autobiographical account of her own childhood experiences in Ayenemen. The book grabbed fourth position in the New York Bestseller list for quite a long time and rights for the book were sold to 21 countries. Arundhati kicked off the trend of large advances which was previously missing among Indian writers. Since then, she evidently lent her influence to convey hundreds of social issues in India to the forefront. Being a passionate antagonist of globalization and neo-imperialism, she embodied the importance of the masses in various socially noteworthy issues. This witnessed the rise of a second era where commercial success fundamentally altered opinions on Indian writers. 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.
