Arudhati roy

Hello readers this is my new blog on to give review about author's work. Here I'm going to analyse Arudhati roy's literary work based on my Own perceptions. This particular task is considered as a thinking activity given by our head of the department Dr.Dilip Barad Sir, the purpose this kinds of thinking activity is  to expand and develop critical thinking.

So many observations says, We as human beings respond to different situations. The response is through our emotions and actions. Those emotions and actions are the indicators of our being, which we are considered dead or non-living. We may perform our tasks like the robots without understanding our feeling anything about the happenings around us. However, this is unacceptable, 

"as we have he ability to think, act and feel which defeats the purpose of us being alive otherwise. When we see the truthfulness of a real author, I would like to add Arundhati Roy's name in this series."

Suzanna Arundhati Roy, an Indian writer, essayist and activist who won the Man Booker Prize for fiction for the best-known novel, "The God of Small Things" in the 1997. 

Arundhati Roy is a prolific novelist who understands the 

spirit of the time. Her present novel deals with varied 

contemporary issues of ‘Modern India’ like “the matter 

of the hijra communities (male-to-female trans-genders), 

the rise of Hindu nationalism, the struggle for Kashmiri 

independence, the plight of caste discrimination, the 

impact of rapid industrialization on the environment and 

the effects of globalization on society” (Monaco 58).

If you are  asked about two novels by her what will be your answer ?

When we glimpse at arundhati Roy's the God of Small things is a  Kind of semi-autobiographical in nature. It reflects on her childhood experiences in Ayemenem. 

"There is really no such thing as voiceless. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard."

In this particular book arundhati Roy use a very extensive parenthetical structure and single word sentences and paragraphs. It is a true spirit of postcolonial literature apart from thematic perspective it presents the incidents when the psychological insecurity tinged with family "madness"

The God of Small Things has the elements of the people from the margins-untouchables (Paravan) and women in particular. Special attention is drawn on the condition of women. This work is supposed to be a post-colonial feminist writing. There are elements of feminism.

" Feminism is the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes especially in achieving political, economic, personal and social equality. "

India has a patriarchal society where the power is in the hands of male members,They over power women in different aspects-religion, finance, politics etc. Many novels that throw light on the exploitation of women in the society. It shows the reality of the status of women in the society so far. This novel was written post colonialism. The writing shows that the exploitation did not end with colonialism. The setting of the novel is supposed to be in the third world, which portrays the struggle, torture, exploitation that a woman has to undergo in the male dominated conservative society.

"female was not so much at risk as the male was. As for 

the transgender, tortured and harassed as they are, they 

had a better chance to survive in the insane world as they 

were not counted in the world of ‘normal’ people” 

(Manoj 116). "

the God of Small things is a very painful journey of self Discovery and conflict between individual and society. Also present untouchability and degradation of young and old tradition and innovation it also represent the love sacrifice and death. In this particular novel arundhati Roy sharply represent awful reality of racism and colonialism caste system and clash for relationship.

If you are asked about Arundhati Roy what will be your answer?

"The Booker Committee has declared, “Roy as an 

architect in literary circle molding language in all shapes and sizes as was never done before at 

least in the Indian literary context”

- (as quoted in Surendran).

The Marxist literary critic Aijaz 

Ahmed despite his differences with Roy’s ideology and political opinion says that,

 “She is the 

first Indian writer in English where a marvelous stylistic resource becomes available for 

provincial vernacular culture without any effect of exoticism or estrangement” 

Arundhati Roy’s novel is a milestone in the abrogation and appropriation of English in 

postcolonial Indian English Fiction in which she imbibes the characteristics of Indian culture 

with a spirit of resistance in order to reclaim her land, her language, her history and the 

memories of pre-colonial era. 

When we see the political alignments in arundhati writing it seems like Avery metaphoric as well as denoted with very interesting and certain events. I would like to add some very e eminent political events of history which is bravely analyse by arundhati Roy,

-Gujrat riots 2002

"minister (who was in 

opposition then and had watched the screaming mob tore 

down the mosque) said the burning of the train definitely 

looked like the work of Pakistani terrorists” 

-(TMUH 44)

According to her,

" The attacking 

mob during the riot used to verify whether anyone is a 

Hindu or is of other faith by asking him/her to chant 

Gayatri Mantra."

With this particular quotation arundhati Roy try to criticize impact of religion , that how religion becomes identity any particular cast per group of people and the reason of riots.

- Anti corruption movement 2011

“Replayed and 

amplified by television and social media, a host of public 

demonstrations primarily in urban centres brought 

thousands of angry citizens to the streets to demand an 

immediate end to political corruption”

-(Roy, 362).

Few

 big cases are Dadri Mob lynching in 2015, 

2016 Latehar Mob lynching case, 2016 Ahmedabad 

lynching case etc. where the mob has lynched the 

accused to death. But it has also been found that 

“The 

perpetrators are self-proclaimed gaurakshaks or “cow 

protectors” who believe that defending cows is their 

ordained religious duty. Thus, “public mob lynching and 

targeting minorities become rational actions for them” 

-(Ahuja & Prakash, web.)

One is very known film related with lynching  Directed by Ashfaque EJ and Shaheen Ahmed, the film tells the stories of mob lynchings in rural north India over the past few years along with witness and family accounts of those who were killed.

 Even Prime Minister Modi in 

many of his public speeches has condemned such acts, 

directed the state governments to take strict action in 

such cases and has alerted the public to be aware of such 

self-proclaimed cow protectors. 

-Una violence

Roy mentions about this suit in the novel when she 

writes,

 “A devotee gifted him a pinstriped suit with Lalla 

Lalla Lalla woven into the fabric. He wore it to greet 

visiting Heads of State” (TMUH 395).

-News in LimeLight.

See here with the name of "Gujrat ka lala" presents a direct criticism on Narendra modi for on his expense of of foreign tour.

2014 is also the year when the

Supreme Court of India in its historic judgement 

declared transgenders as “third gender” giving them 

equal fundamental rights like any other sex in India. This 

is also very central to Roy’s novel because her 

protagonist is a hermaphrodite, struggling to gain 

recognition in ‘duniya’ (the mainstream world). 

Arundhati Roy has overtly criticized the current Modi-

Government of India as well as its policies in Kashmir in 

many of her public interviews. The same resentment can 

be seen in her novel where she is hinting at the political 

issue of Kashmir and propagation of Hindu nationalism 

under cover of Anjum’s story. 

We can consider the thyroid as a very brilliant writer of Indian current situation the language is English but her writing is purely Indian. She used to criticize anyone very openly. She never be afraid two breathing with truth, to be with Truth and to write truth, as per Indian belief and is past says about women's condition, arundhati Roy is one of them who started new skill degree towards revolutionary writing and she  tried to include every busy conflict in Indian society as I mentioned above she deals with problem, to be out of box with Truth without any fear.

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