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This author described a nuclear test as the “final act of betrayal by a ruling class that has failed its people” in the essay “The End of Imagination.” In a novel by this author, the security guard Saddam Hussein moves into a graveyard with an intersex person. (20[3])In a novel by this author, (20[1])six policemen create a haunting smell of “old roses” when they beat up a man in the History House. Ammu is ostracized for her affair with (*) Velutha in a novel by this author, in which a boy is molested at a screening of (10[1])The Sound of Music by the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man. The debut novel by this author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness ends with the siblings Rahel and Estha having a relationship. For 10 points, name this Indian author of The God of Small Things. ■END■

ANSWER: Arundhati Roy [or Suzanna Arundhati Roy]
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