35 | Page "Study of Social Activism in Arundhati Roy's Work." (original) (raw)

Indian English Literature written during the pre-independence period and post-independence period is the representation of its periods, where more or less the writers penned down the social issues in their writings. Writers of every genre are the representatives of their age. Some worth mentioning authors of the contemporary period to be mentioned here like Salman Rushdie, Kamala Markandaya, Arundhati Roy, Mulk Raj Anad, Anita Desai, Manju Kapoor and many more of the contemporary literature who represents the age through their specific works. Their writing deals with the major issues of the society of every age. That is why the literature of earlier times cast a new picture of socio-political thought to the modern itself. Today our society faces tremendous problem under the influence of politics and power, which makes the innocent people its ladder to climb and to have the ripe fruit of development, and this issue directly or indirectly pepped out in the writings of the contemporary writers too. In this paper an attempt will be made to study the same in the writings of the Booker award winner, Arundhati Roy, for her debut novel "The God of Small Things". The study will critically analyze the major issues of the contemporary society upheld by the author to make her readers aware of the same, whereas it will also seek out the answer for it"s the power of the capitalist or the discourse of the dominating rule over our country that still persists in the form of socio political issues. The study will take into account her all short stories, essays, interviews etc. besides the novel that makes her more to be an activist rather than a mere novelist.

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