Important Events Of November – 24

Charles Darwin’s origins were published on November 24,1859.The day the book is published is celebrated as the Evolution day.
In 1859 Charles Darwin wrote and published the book.
The 150th anniversary of the Origin of Life’s Life was celebrated throughout the world in 2009.
This is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birthday. Darwin Day celebrated on his birth day 12 February 1809.

Birth:

Suzanna Arundhati Roy was born on November 24, 1961 in Shillong the capital of Meghalaya.

Honours:

An Indian writer, political columnist and anti-nuclear activist. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.
Her novel The God of Small Things (1997),which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.
She is a spokesperson of the anti-globalization/alter-globalization movement and a vehement critic of neo-imperialism and U.S. foreign policy.
She opposes India’s policies toward nuclear weapons as well as industrialization and economic growth and which she describes as “encrypted with genocidal potential” in Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy.
Medha Patkar began to actively participate in the Narmada Bachao Antolan system.
Her voice reached to the people on the other side of society. In an opinion piece in The Guardian, Roy pled for international attention to what she called a possible government-sponsored genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Arundhati Roy’s novels, political essays and reviews are making many different works. The nature of his creations does not identify the black whites separately for any time.
She creates in many magazines in the world because she creates evil and goodness in humans, nations, and policies.

Awards:

Roy was awarded the 1997 Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things.
Roy won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay in 1989.
In 2015 she returned the national award in protest against religious intolerance and the growing violence by rightwing groups in India in 2002.
She won the Lannan Foundation’s Cultural Freedom Award In 2003.
She was awarded “special recognition” as a Woman of Peace at the Global Exchange Human Rights Awards in San Francisco.
Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in May 2004.
In November 2011 she was awarded the Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing.He refused the Sahitya Academy award in 2003.

1639 – Jerimaiya Horoks,who first discovered a Venus plant moving between the Sun and the Earth.
1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen’s Land (later renamed Tasmania).
1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.

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