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Authors generally express their feelings and experiences through their best narrative style and storytelling. Authors pen down and highlight the basic lacking of nation, sometimes they describe the political, socio-economical problems, and at times they also put their own views and theories to curb the majorly spread disease of the country. Speaking of India, there are still many deep dark stains, and they must be removed. Rape, corruption, unemployment, political malpractices, caste conflicts, poverty, starvation, malnutrition, child labor, child marriage... This is the only glimpse, but the list may become that much long that you may get tired reading this blog. This blog is a part of Sunday Reading task. Students were asked to write about the author. Here I've written the information about the author Arundhati Roy.
Arundhati Roy is an Indian author who is well known for her bestseller novels, "God of Small Things" and "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" She is also awarded with Man Booker Prize in 1997. She is also a political activist and involved in human rights.
Most of her works, whether it be a fiction or non-fiction, are directly related to Indian politics. Her debut novel God of Small Things (1997) is a semi-biographical book, but majorly showing her own childhood experiences. Her second novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), highlights the orthodox mentality of people. She called Narendra Modi as Gujarat ka lalla, and Manmohan singh as Caged Rabbit, Kejarival as a Mister Aggraval. Thus she strikes on many political incidents. Here is the video best describes the content of her novel.
It seems that Arundhati is more interested in political happenings of India, that's why she reflected most of the things related to it. Secondly, the success of her first novel, established that she, as an author, has got the perfect cut picture of Indian taste of readers. Because to reach out to the audience, one has to be very observant and has to have wide vision. She knows very well in which side to be. She was campaigning with Medha Patkar against Sardar Sarovar Project. Roy counters that her writing is intentional in its passionate, hysterical tone: "I am hysterical. I'm screaming from the bloody rooftops. And he and his smug little club are going 'Shhhh... you'll wake the neighbours!' I want to wake the neighbours, that's my whole point. I want everybody to open their eyes."
In 2013 Roy gave her views on Narendra Modi, saying that "he runs everything, he has all backing of media, army and the majoritarian right wing votes. He has everything in queue. He is the system."
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Authors generally express their feelings and experiences through their best narrative style and storytelling. Authors pen down and highlight the basic lacking of nation, sometimes they describe the political, socio-economical problems, and at times they also put their own views and theories to curb the majorly spread disease of the country. Speaking of India, there are still many deep dark stains, and they must be removed. Rape, corruption, unemployment, political malpractices, caste conflicts, poverty, starvation, malnutrition, child labor, child marriage... This is the only glimpse, but the list may become that much long that you may get tired reading this blog. This blog is a part of Sunday Reading task. Students were asked to write about the author. Here I've written the information about the author Arundhati Roy.
Most of her works, whether it be a fiction or non-fiction, are directly related to Indian politics. Her debut novel God of Small Things (1997) is a semi-biographical book, but majorly showing her own childhood experiences. Her second novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), highlights the orthodox mentality of people. She called Narendra Modi as Gujarat ka lalla, and Manmohan singh as Caged Rabbit, Kejarival as a Mister Aggraval. Thus she strikes on many political incidents. Here is the video best describes the content of her novel.
It seems that Arundhati is more interested in political happenings of India, that's why she reflected most of the things related to it. Secondly, the success of her first novel, established that she, as an author, has got the perfect cut picture of Indian taste of readers. Because to reach out to the audience, one has to be very observant and has to have wide vision. She knows very well in which side to be. She was campaigning with Medha Patkar against Sardar Sarovar Project. Roy counters that her writing is intentional in its passionate, hysterical tone: "I am hysterical. I'm screaming from the bloody rooftops. And he and his smug little club are going 'Shhhh... you'll wake the neighbours!' I want to wake the neighbours, that's my whole point. I want everybody to open their eyes."
In 2013 Roy gave her views on Narendra Modi, saying that "he runs everything, he has all backing of media, army and the majoritarian right wing votes. He has everything in queue. He is the system."
Thank You!
Sources:
(1) https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2019/11/arundhati-roys-novels.html
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundhati_Roy
(3) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/arundhati-roys-fascinating-mess/528684/
(4) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/arundhati-roy-returns-to-fiction-in-fury
(5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqwcix0NIa4
(6) https://www.thelallantop.com/jhamajham/book-review-of-the-ministry-of-utmost-happiness-by-arundhati-roy/
(7) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/11/ministry-utmost-happiness-arundhati-roy-review
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundhati_Roy
(3) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/arundhati-roys-fascinating-mess/528684/
(4) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/arundhati-roy-returns-to-fiction-in-fury
(5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqwcix0NIa4
(6) https://www.thelallantop.com/jhamajham/book-review-of-the-ministry-of-utmost-happiness-by-arundhati-roy/
(7) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/11/ministry-utmost-happiness-arundhati-roy-review
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