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Born in Shillong, India--> Moves to Kerala at the age of 5
A Kerala tea plantation is pictured, as her father was a tea plantation manager. -
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Life of Arundhati Roy
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INDIA: India loses brief border war with China
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INDIA: Death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
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INDIA: Second war with Pakistan over Kashmir.
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INDIA: Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister.
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INDIA: Third war with Pakistan over creation of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan.
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INDIA: India explodes first nuclear device in underground test.
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INDIA: Indira Gandhi declares state of emergency after being found guilty of electoral malpractice.
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Studied Architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi
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INDIA: Indira Gandhi returns to power heading Congress party splinter group, Congress (Indira).
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INDIA: Indira Gandhi assassinated by Sikh bodyguards, following which her son, Rajiv, takes over.
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Wrote the screenplay for "In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones"
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INDIA: Indian troops withdrawn from Sri Lanka.
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INDIA: Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by suicide bomber sympathetic to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers.
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The God of Small Things is published
This is Roy's first and only book. Has a semi-autobiographical nature to it. -
INDA: Congress suffers worst ever electoral defeat as Hindu nationalist BJP emerges as largest single party.
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Accolades for God of Small Things
Wins Booker Award and becomes a New York Times Bestseller. -
In response to India's testing of nuclear weapons in Pokhran, Rajasthan, Roy wrote "The End of Imagination"
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INDIA: BJP forms coalition government under Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
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Receives Sydney Peace Prize
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Roy Declines Sahitya Akademi award
She could not accept an award from a government which she opposed.
