Where the mess manager of the canteen had a shack, which the rented to Roy and her boyfriend. Next to the school of architecture, there was a refugee colony. The other period of her life that is very important is when she was in the Delhi school of architecture. She had to make a living by flogging empty beer bottles.

She took a room which was tin-shaded at Feroz Sha Kotla. This exerts a great shock in to her young, gentle mind. In the second year, she was requested her family not to return home to Kerala. But their too she had to spent her life in the utter penury. She joined in the Delhi school of architecture. At the age of eighteen she left for New Delhi for her higher education. Lalith Kumar Christopher Roy, the brother of Arundhati Roy, who has been portrayed as Estha in the novel is also opinion that Arundhati was a very good student, an athlete and an orator. But in spite of all these odds and hazards she was essentially an extra ordinary genius who used to devote to the studies heart and soul. She became a formidable pickle label sticker and curry powder packer. Arundhati spent her most time in her grandmothers pickle factory. 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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