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Arundhati Roy was the first Indian woman to win the Man Booker Prize in the year 1997.

An Indian writer, Arundhati Roy, was awarded England's prestigious Booker Prize this evening for her first novel, ''The God of Small Things,'' a soaring story about a set of twins struggling to make sense of the world, themselves and their strange and difficult family in southern India.

Kiran Desai was the youngest woman to win the Man Booker Prize.

Bernice Rubens became the first woman to win the Booker Prize in 1970. Man Booker Prize is one of the world's richest literary prizes.

The ASEAN Headquarters is located in Jakarta, Indonesia.

ASEAN is The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a group of ten Southeast Asian countries. It was formed on 8th August 1967. The 10 countries in ASEAN are Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand.

Its main purpose include the acceleration of economic growth, social progress, cultural development among its members, the protection of the peace and stability of the region, and to provide opportunities for member countries to discuss differences peacefully.

The Study of human beauty and the ways in which beauty influences the society is called as Kalology.

• This study is focused primarily on human attractiveness, rather than the broader field of aesthetics.

• Opposite of beauty is Ugly.