Anna Hazare, Azim Premji in List of Top Global Thinkers
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3. Arundhati Roy

Author of award winning book 'The God of Small Things", Arundhati Roy has been ranked 94 in the list for "being the voice of India's Voiceless".

Arundhati Roy 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.

Early in her career, Roy worked for television and movies. She wrote the screenplays for In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989), a movie based on her experiences as a student of architecture, directed by her current husband, and Electric Moon (1992).