Abstract:
Arundhati Roy, the famous Indian author and a prominent critic of imperialism, was born on
24 November, 1961 in Shillong, Meghalaya in India, and grew up in Kerala. She studied at
the School of Planning and Architecture of New Delhi. Her mother was Mary Roy, a
women's rights activist and a Syrian Christian from the state of Kerala, whose court case
changed the inheritance laws in favor of women. Her father was a Bengali tea planter who
left the family when she was only two. Her mother's influence is very important in Roy's
life; something that we know from many of her interviews she has given in different
newspapers, TV channels, journals and websites. Her most famous work, as an author, is The
God of Small Things, the only novel she wrote. It won her the prestigious Booker prize in
1997. Before she became famous for her novel, she struggled a lot and had to do various jobs to
earn her bread and butter, such as selling cakes in Goa beach, taking aerobics classes in five
star hotel and writing screenplays and acting in movies. The movies in which she acted are In
which Annie Gives It Those Ones (she also wrote its screenplays), Massey Sahib and Electric
Moon. Media attention first came to her in 1994 when she criticized Shekhar Kapoor's film
Bandit Queen, in her film review named "The Great Indian Rape Trick", for exploiting
Phoolan Devi (particularly in a rape scene) and misrepresenting her life and her significance
as she questioned Kapoor's right to "restage the rape of a living woman without her
permission". The controversy regarding this review at last went to court
Description:
This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh