Thinking Activity Arundhati Roy

Thinking Activity Arundhati Roy

                                Suzanna Arundhati Roy born 24 November 1961 is an India author best known for her novel The god of small things (1997), which won the man 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.

      *Arundhati Roy Works :- 

1. The God of small Things (1997)

2. The Ministry of utmost Happiness (2017)

3. My seditious Heart (2019)

4. The end of Imagination (1998)  

5. Capitalism a Ghost story (2014)

6. Listening to Grasshoppers (2009)

7. The Algebra of infinite Justice (2001)

     * The God of Small Things :-

                                 The God small Things was Roy's first book and only novel until the 2017 publication of the ministry of utmost Happiness twenty years later. this novel broken ideas about caste and Indian marriage system. in the novel two characters are protagonist Esha and Rahul. both are twice child and their mother separated from their father, so here protagonist parent's failed marriage then other characters failed marriage also shown like their maternal uncle, maternal aunt and  Rahul and Esha (twice-brother-sister) marriage failed then at the end of the novel Rahul and Esha having sexual relation with each other. so here Arundhati deconstruction idea of Indian society.

       * The Ministry of utmost Happiness :-  

                        The timing was very perfect with Roy's novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, after a Frenetic tedious gloomy autumn day and completely overwhelmed. in the novel two protagonist characters are two Anjum and Tilo belong to muslim community. in the novel real picture of ideas Kashmir Issue as well as community conflict and reflect political party's politics. through the novel she show modern India history, from land reform that dispossessed poor farmers to the 2002 Goodhra train burning and Kashmir rebellion. and included an intersex woman as it called them Hijara, also shown their rebellion in the novel.

                     

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