Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

Suzanna Arundhati Roy (1961 CE-), Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.