<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Feb 4 2009, 11:02 PM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Feb 4 2009, 11:02 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->rel to 46:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The author Arundhati Roy is a NIECE of Prannoy Roy. Her mother is a keralite syrian christian women's right's activist named Mary roy.
Incidentally, the first name of the author Roy is "Suzanna". Hence maybe the confusion.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]94256[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->So Suzann<b>a</b> Arundhati Roy (booker prize winner) is still daugher to Kerala Syrian christian Mary Roy, but she is the <i>niece</i> of Prannoy Roy. And then there's another related to him with practically the same name. Okay, I now see there's a valid reason I'm not allowed to get the last letter of her first name wrong.
I got her relation to Prannoy Roy wrong though (first cousin vs niece), as I read this in that hard-to-track-down Rediff article posted in #46. (If she's his <i>niece</i>, then the article should have said that she is his "first cousin once removed", shouldn't it? Because plain "first cousins" refer to direct cousins in the same generation. Then again, I don't really know English.)
Your source know anything on SandeepWeb's reference to Richard Crasta's book that Margaret is her other name, while 'Arundhati' is merely the pen name she employed when she wanted her 'gawdawful things' published?
Also, any reason they did not previously state explicitly that Suzanna was her first name and moreover said that she was not related to either Suzanne or Prannoy Roy? I refer to #45:
<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Feb 3 2009, 09:36 AM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Feb 3 2009, 09:36 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->someone on a list informed that the "Suzanne" Arundhati is different from the author-activist Arundhati. While the former is a cousin of Prannoy Roy, the latter Arundhati the Booker Prize winner has no relation with the two.[right][snapback]94181[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>ADDED:</b> Here's a page explaining first cousins, and first cousins once removed, etcetera. From the table, I imagine my initial understanding of the meaning of 'first cousins' is right. But I may just as well be wrong, since I find reading such tables hard.
Wacky supports your source in confirming that that 'gawdawful thing' Suzanna is Prannoy's niece.
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The author Arundhati Roy is a NIECE of Prannoy Roy. Her mother is a keralite syrian christian women's right's activist named Mary roy.
Incidentally, the first name of the author Roy is "Suzanna". Hence maybe the confusion.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]94256[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->So Suzann<b>a</b> Arundhati Roy (booker prize winner) is still daugher to Kerala Syrian christian Mary Roy, but she is the <i>niece</i> of Prannoy Roy. And then there's another related to him with practically the same name. Okay, I now see there's a valid reason I'm not allowed to get the last letter of her first name wrong.
I got her relation to Prannoy Roy wrong though (first cousin vs niece), as I read this in that hard-to-track-down Rediff article posted in #46. (If she's his <i>niece</i>, then the article should have said that she is his "first cousin once removed", shouldn't it? Because plain "first cousins" refer to direct cousins in the same generation. Then again, I don't really know English.)
Your source know anything on SandeepWeb's reference to Richard Crasta's book that Margaret is her other name, while 'Arundhati' is merely the pen name she employed when she wanted her 'gawdawful things' published?
Also, any reason they did not previously state explicitly that Suzanna was her first name and moreover said that she was not related to either Suzanne or Prannoy Roy? I refer to #45:
<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Feb 3 2009, 09:36 AM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Feb 3 2009, 09:36 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->someone on a list informed that the "Suzanne" Arundhati is different from the author-activist Arundhati. While the former is a cousin of Prannoy Roy, the latter Arundhati the Booker Prize winner has no relation with the two.[right][snapback]94181[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>ADDED:</b> Here's a page explaining first cousins, and first cousins once removed, etcetera. From the table, I imagine my initial understanding of the meaning of 'first cousins' is right. But I may just as well be wrong, since I find reading such tables hard.
Wacky supports your source in confirming that that 'gawdawful thing' Suzanna is Prannoy's niece.