Arundhati Roy

The current world is a place of ongoing crisis. People live and survive in a crisis cycle; one crisis after another. Either from natural occurring crisis such as hurricanes or earthquake to man made for example war or poverty. Looking at the present day crisis most will assume that crisis is a variable that is inevitable. However, there are many who disagree with the previous idea. Some believe that since the crisis is created by people it can also be destroyed by its creators. For humans are…

of Small Things by Arundhati Roy deviates from the conventional novel through using time, both thematically and as a structuring device, giving it a pivotal point of focus and importance. This she does to enhance the novel with deeper meaning than what the surface may initially portray. Through the use of a fragmented and non-linear structure, Roy emphasizes key themes in the novel. She often freezes time in order to prepare the reader and create a menacing tone. Moreover, Roy uses language as a…

language. (2) Roy points political, social and religious conditions out in India throughout the detailed vivid description of people, places and…

In The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, readers get a far share of revelations that are accompanied by concealment, thus proving the gap between the text and the reader. Right from the start, the readers are thrown into present day Ayemenem, where they learn the fate of the twins, but have to work backwards to figure out the events that led to the present day. The writing style of the novel aids the readers in filling in the gaps by jumping in and out of the past and present. These out of…

personalities are high influenced by other characters of the story. Persepolis, written by Marjane Satrapi is an autobiographical graphic novel while The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy is pure fiction though the setting is in the village she was born in. The significant thing that relates these novels is that both Arundhati and Marjane are women authors and the central characters in both these novels are women who have lived through hard situations in life. Ammu in The God of Small Things…

taught that their cultures are inferior to their colonizer, they are unworthy of being loved because of the color of their skin and their subsequent cultural practices, The God of Small Things is a postcolonial semi-biographical Indian novel, and Arundhati Roy’s debut novel tackles several of these identity shaping struggles. It is astounding that The God of Small Things critical acclaim is still valid in regards to the cultural relevance and relation the novel has over modern Indian society and…

The novel Ladies Coupe (2001) is written by a remarkable female Indian English-language writer Anita Nair aged 50 (1966). She is known for her fictions as well as her travelogues. Time and again, she meets random young men and women who see her as a vagabond free spirit wandering from destination to destination. She always focuses on the problems faced by woman in Indian society. In the novel Ladies Coupe, she…

The Representations of Rape Victims in Select Indian Women Writings Mrs. Roopna Ravindran Lecturer in English GDC Shadnagar Mahabubnagar District Telangana 9160108844 Abstract Women face violence in the patriarchal Indian society in many forms. The most upsetting form is sexual assaults and rape. Violence against women is a major answerable issue that negatively affects empowerment of women. The paper aims to bring out the power structures prevalent in the patriarchal Indian society. The…

Her novel The Nature of Passion is about a modern young girl who wants to discard the age old tradition and customs. The other notable Indian women novelist in English are Anita Desai, Shobha de, Arundhati Roy, Mahaswetha Devi and Sashi Deshapade. Anita desai is one of the most appreciable women novelist. She uses stream of consciousness method and portrays the psychic life of her characters. Some of her famous novels are Cry the Peacock, Bye Bye Blackbird…

After undergoing, a painful seven years of apprenticeship, living in Brookyln, she often visited her mother Anita Desai in New York or travelled with her. Her debut novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is no less ingenious in its treatment of identity and subjectivity. It is based on myth-making and mythical systems. Kiran Desai's literary creations are endowed with multicultural themes in which hopes and aspirations of both men and women in a globalised society are presented to…