Arundhati Roy

In what may mark writer-activist Arundhati Roys return to controversies, the Booker-winning novelist of The God of Small Things is scheduled to address a gathering here on the topic Waqt ki Aahat. Roy, who rose to global fame as the new deity of prose in 1997 after bagging the most prestigious literary honour 'The Booker Prize' for her debut novel will be in conversation with Alok Rai (Professor of literature at the Department of English, Delhi University) on Wednesday.