This phenomenon can be beautifully seen in the novel where Ammu who represent her mother, marry Roy, has to undergo so many up & downs. The men in and around the house were conversation in their outlook. The Ayemenam house was dominated by the traditional patriarchal clutches. She had to face several cares and anxieties, fret and fever during her child-hood. Roy was the thus product of a broken home. The favorable ruling allowed Christian women an equal share with their male siblings in their father’s property. He also made the history by fighting the provision of the Christian succession act and in this connection she even went to the Supreme Court. Her mother marry Roy brok the tradition by marrying a Bengali and then divorcing him. Just after a few years of her birth, her father the tea planter divorced his wife, there for the little child Arundhati had to come back to Ayemenam with her beloved mother. The theme of the novel revolves round this village. Though she was born in Shilong, where her father was employed as a tea planter, her early childhood was spent at village, Ayemenam, a few kilometers from the Kottayam town in central Kerala. Untouchability in Arundhati Roy’s God of Small ThingsĪrundhati Roy came in to the realm of literature in the year 1997 when her debut novel, “The God of Small Things” begged the coveted booker prize for literature.
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