Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 101. Chapters: Sarojini Naidu, Arundhati
Roy, Anita Nair, Amrita Pritam, Mamoni Raisom Goswami, Sarojini
Sahoo, Maneka Gandhi, Meena Alexander, M. K. Binodini Devi, Jhumpa
Lahiri, Fanny Parkes, Barkha Dutt, Teesta Setalvad, Vimala Devi,
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Rimi B. Chatterjee, Gulbadan Begum,
Ashapoorna Devi, Romila Thapar, Madhur Jaffrey, Chitra Banerjee
Divakaruni, Shama Zaidi, M. N. Singaramma, Amita Kanekar, Mahasweta
Devi, Kamala Surayya, Pupul Jayakar, Meera, Seema Mustafa, Mahadevi
Varma, Sister Nivedita, Ismat Chughtai, Shobhaa De, Cornelia
Sorabji, Anita Desai, Vijaya Mulay, Akka Mahadevi, Aroti Dutt,
Adela Florence Nicolson, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Vaidehi, Bharati
Mukherjee, Shanta Shelke, Kiran Desai, Sooni Taraporevala, Mamta
Sagar, Mallika Sengupta, Bhargavi Rao, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan,
Kamini Roy, Meera Nanda, Barnita Bagchi, Gita Piramal, Anees Jung,
Lalleshwari, Shereen Ratnagar, Rita Chowdhury, Pinki Virani,
Nayantara Sahgal, Reetika Vazirani, Sonia Faleiro, Manveen Sandhu,
Malati Bedekar, Sudha Murthy, Suchitra Bhattacharya, Krupabai
Satthianadhan, Namita Gokhale, Eunice de Souza, Preeti Shenoy, B.
Sandhya, Kamla Bhatt, Krishna Hutheesing, Sugathakumari, Himani
Dalmia, Mrinal Pande, Toru Dutt, M. K. Indira, Jyotirmoyee Devi,
Lalitha Lenin, Santhini Govindan, Urvashi Butalia, Sujata Bhatt,
Kabita Sinha, Bem Le Hunte, Kamala Markandaya, Jasodhara Bagchi,
Sagarika Ghose, Honey Irani, Isha Basant Joshi, Leela Devi, Kapila
Vatsyayan, Amrita Cheema, Vidya Subramaniam, Mridula Koshy, Anjana
Appachana, Saira Mohan, Anasuya Shankar, Chandrakala A. Hate,
Tanika Sarkar, Indira Sant, Shashi Deshpande, Suniti Namjoshi, K.
R. Meera, Attia Hosain, Lalithambika Antharjanam, Nirupama Dutt,
Sunita Deshpande, Baby Halder, Sulekha Sanyal, Maria Aurora Couto,
Malathi Rao, Muddupalani, Chitra Mudgal, Balamani Amma, Kanika
Dhillon, Smita Agarwal, Nilanjana S. Roy, Rukmini Bhaya Nair,
Anupama Niranjana, Bani Basu, Rashid Jahan, Thrity Umrigar,
Jaishree Misra, Sujata Madhok, Shibani Bathija, Abha Dawesar,
Kaveri Nambisan, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Manjit Tiwana, Antara Dev
Sen, Samina Ali, Parvatibai Athavale, Bhavna Chauhan, Rajalakshmi,
Sunny Singh, Monica Das, Malika Amar Sheikh, Manjula Padmanabhan,
Ramanichandran, Shoba Narayan, Sivasankari, Mridula Sinha,
Gudibande Poornima, Gangadevi, Parul Sehgal, Ajit Cour. Excerpt:
Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) 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. Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong,
Meghalaya, India, to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother, the
women's rights activist Mary Roy, and an Indian Bengali Hindu
father, Ranjit Roy, a tea planter by profession. She spent her
childhood in Aymanam in Kerala, and went to school at Corpus
Christi, Kottayam, followed by the Lawrence School, Lovedale, in
Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. She then studied architecture at the School
of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, where she met her first
husband, architect Gerard da Cunha. Roy met her second husband,
filmmaker Pradip Krishen, in 1984, and played a village girl in his
award-winning movie Massey Sahib. Until made financially stable by
the success of her novel The God of Small Things, she worked
various jobs, including running aerobics classes ...
