Explanation:

- Option 1: Mrinal Pandey

- Mrinal Pandey is an Indian journalist and author but not known for writing "The God of Small Things."

- Option 2: Arun Shourie

- Arun Shourie is an Indian journalist, author, and politician, but he did not write "The God of Small Things."

- Option 3: Arundhati Roy

- Arundhati Roy, an Indian author and activist, is the writer of "The God of Small Things," published in 1997. It won the Booker Prize in the same year.

- Option 4: None of the above

- This is incorrect because Arundhati Roy is the correct author.