[THE INDIAN EXPRESS] ONE OF INDIA'S EMINENT WRITERS AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST ARUNDHATI ROY SAYS INDIA IS A POOR SUPERPOWER. AND SHE SAYS. EIGHT INDIAN STATES TOGETHER ACCOUNT FOR MORE POOR PEOPLE THAN IN TWENTY SIX AFRICAN NATIONS. [NOTE: Arundhati Roy, full name Suzanna Arundhati Roy, (born November 24, 1961, Shillong, Meghalaya, India), Indian author, actress, and political activist who was best known for the award-winning novel The God of Small Things (1997) and for her involvement in environmental and human rights causes. The book won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.]
