The 67-year-old journeyed from substance abuse to devotion to God to small-screen celebrity, all in the backwoods of Louisiana.
Their debut video, shown on 4Shbab, features the band members walking around a town praising God while distributing money to small children.
From blasé it is a short distance to spoiled absolutely rotten, and once you've arrived there, you can depend upon the gods to devise a small lesson in humility.
In 1997 Roy published her debut novel, The God of Small Things to wide acclaim.
Does it bother her that the followup to The God of Small Things has been so long in coming?
He was also the first publisher to champion The God of Small Things, when he worked for HarperCollins in India, and thus a longstanding friend of Roy's.
Her beauty, brains and brassiness catapulted her into supersonic stardom, and the entire country, whether or not they'd read The God of Small Things, waited to see what she would come up with next.
There was, to choose from countless examples, the £155,000 HarperCollins paid to Arundhati Roy for The God of Small Things.
She cleaves to her father's totalitarian God with small, brutal sacrifices of blood.
But eventually she became dispirited with the elitist film world and spent more time writing, leading eventually to the publication of The God of Small Things in 1997.
There was a very large, genial man whose slogan was "We need to make a U-turn to God," and a small, gnarled World War II veteran who called the president "a would-be mullah of the most evil kind".
