Arundhati Roy “The God of Small Things”: A Beautiful work of Art

Indian English fiction writers write about the era in which they live and it is fully reflected in their works. Writers in India go through two different periods – colonialism and post-colonialism. Colonialism gave birth to the Indo – Anglian literature which refers to the works of writers who penned down their writing in the English language and their mother tongue – one of the local languages in India. The first English book written by an Indian Sake Dean Mahomet is Travels of Dean Mahomet in 1793. And because English is the international language, Indian writers‟ written words and thoughts catch the attention of the readers all over the world. Writers like R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Mulk Raj Anand, Amitav Ghosh, Raja Rao, Rohinton Mistry, Kamala Markandya, Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy, JhumpaLahiri and many others wrote about the social situation in their writings. Nowadays our society is afflicted with plenty of problems and our contemporary writers try to bring forth all these issues. The present paper aims at fixating on Arundhati Roy‟s The God of Small Things, a novel that touches the directly or indirectly all realistic scenario that is occurring in the society. It's set in the Kerala region. This study provokes the few concepts that are discussed by Roy in her work through the way of realistic pattern. She used the stream of consciousness technique for her novel. She is a revolutionary writer, who protects the helpless without worrying about her status and also suggest the path for women who suffered severely at the hands of patriarchal society.