Monday, 2 December 2019

Sunday reading : Arundhati Roy

Thinking activity on Sunday reading


Suzanna Arundhati Roy is born on 24 November 1961 in Shillong, Meghalaya. She is Indian author, actress. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. She is best known for her novel ' The God of smaller
things' which won the Man Booker prize for fiction in 1997.
   
      She worked in television and movies. She wrote the screenplay  for In which Annie gives It those ones. The movie based on her experience as a student of architecture in which she also appeared as a performer and Electronic Moon.

      She won the National film Award for Best screenplay in 1988. She also written a television serial The Banyan tree after the success of her 1st novel. She has written numerous essays on contemporary politics and culture.

About her novel ' THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS'

       Arundhati's first novel ' The God of small things' in 1992. This novel completing in 1996. She wrote her  childhood experiences in Aymanam in this novel. This book is semi – Autobiographical novel. And also won the Booker prize for fiction.


She writes on culture and class discrimination of her native village. She including colonial and social history. She give more attention on caste system touchability and untouchability. In the mid 20th century. There are four original caste and then divided into 3000 sub caste.

" Change is one things acceptance is another"



     ' The Ministry of utmost happiness' is a second novel of Arundhati Roy. This Novel published in 2017. In this novel she shows the dark and violent incidents of the modern Indian history. The land reform disposed poor farmers to the 2002. Kashmir insurgency and Godhra train burning. She's character run the Indian society or intersex  woman ' Hijra' a rebellion architect supervisor in the intelligence service take place in Delhi and Kashmir.
   

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