The first Indian to win the Booker Prize was ________.
- Salman Rushdie
- Arundhati Roy
- V.S. Naipaul
- Kiran Desai
Answer: Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel 'The God of Small Things'. (Note: V.S. Naipaul won it earlier in 1971, but he was a British citizen of Indian descent; Roy was the first Indian citizen).