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    This document provides biographies of four Indian authors/activists: - Gauri Lankesh, a journalist and activist from Bangalore who advocated for freedom of the press and was critical of right-wing Hindu extremism until her assassination in 2017. - Arundhati Roy, an author best known for her novel The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize, and a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. - Kamala Surayya, an Indian English poet and writer from Kerala known for her openly feminine works and columns on women's issues, who died in 2009 at age 75. - Kiran Desai, whose novel The Inheritance of Loss

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    Gauri Lankesh

    Gauri Lankesh (1962 2017) was an Indian journalist-turned-activist from Bangalore,


    Karnataka. She worked as an editor in Lankesh Patrike, a Kannada weekly started by her
    father P. Lankesh, and ran her own weekly called Gauri Lankesh Patrike. Lankesh was
    known for advocating freedom of the press. She had written about the wrongdoings of the
    Indian National Congress leader, D. K. Shivakumar, a close associate of the former Chief
    Minister of Karnataka, S. M. Krishna.[1]

    Lankesh was shot to death by unknown assailants outside her home in Rajarajeshwari Nagar
    on September 5, 2017 at the age of 55.[2][3] At the time of her death, Gauri was known for
    being a critic of right-wing Hindu extremism.
    Arundhati Roy

    Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961)[1] is an Indian author. She is best known for her
    novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. This
    novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author. She is also a political
    activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.[3]
    Kamala Surayya

    Kamala Surayya (born Kamala; 31 March 1934 31 May 2009), also known by her one-
    time pen name Madhavikutty and Kamala Das, was an Indian English poetess and
    littrateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala, India. Her
    popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography, while her oeuvre
    in English, written under the name Kamala Das, is noted for the poems and explicit
    autobiography. She was also a widely read columnist and wrote on diverse topics including
    women's issues, child care, politics among others.

    Her open and honest treatment of female sexuality, free from any sense of guilt, infused her
    writing with power, but also marked her as an iconoclast in her generation.[1] On 31 May
    2009, aged 75, she died at a hospital in Pune.[2]
    Kiran Desai

    Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of
    Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize[1] and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.[2]

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