3. (born 24
November 1961) is an Indian author
and political activist who was best
known for the award-winning novel
The God of Small Things (1997) and
for her involvement in
environmental and human rights
causes. Roy’s novel became the
biggest-selling book by a no
expatriate Indian author and won
the 1998 Man Booker Prize for
Fiction.
5. Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong,
Meghalaya, India, to Ranjit Roy, a Bengali
Hindu tea planter and Mary Roy, a Malayali
Syrian Christian women's rights activist.
She spent her childhood in Ayemenem in
Kerala, and went to school at Corpus Christi,
Kottayam, followed by the Lawrence School,
Lovedale, in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. She then
studied architecture at the School of Planning
and Architecture, Delhi, where she met her first
husband, architect Gerard da Cunha.
6. Roy met her second husband, filmmaker
Pradip Krishen, in 1984, and played a village
girl in his award-winning movie Massey Sahib.
Until made financially secure by the success of
her novel The God of Small Things, she worked
various jobs, including running aerobics
classes at five-star hotels in New Delhi. Roy is
a cousin of prominent media personality
Prannoy Roy, the head of the leading Indian TV
media group NDTV. She lives in New Delhi.
10. • Booker Prize – The God of Small Things
• National Film Award for Best Screenplay –
In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones
( screenplay)
• Special recognition as a Woman of Peace
• Sydney Peace Prize
• Sahitya Akademi Award - The Algebra of Infinite
Justice
• Norman Mailer Prize
13. Ayemenem
An actual town in the Southern Indian state of Kerala, spelled
"Aymanam." Arundhati Roy spent her childhood there, and it is
the main setting for The God of Small Things.
Caste system
A social system that grades society based on castes, or classes.
In India, the class system is hereditary and "stratified according
to Hindu ritual purity." The highest caste are Brahmans and the
lowest are Untouchables.
Cochin
A major city in the South Indian state of Kerala, which hosts the
region's major airport. It is where the family goes to greet
Sophie Mol and Margaret Kochamma upon their arrival from
England.
14. History House
The abandoned house across the river, where Velutha lives with
Vellya Paapen and Kuttappen. Estha and Rahel become
obsessed with the History House and use the shadowy area
surrounding it as their haven from the Ayemenem House.
Kerala
One of the four states comprising Southern India, located on
the southwest tip of India, bordered to the west by the Arabian
Sea and on the east by the Ghat Mountains. Save flashbacks,
the entire story of The God of Small Things unfolds in Kerala.
Untouchables
Those in the caste system who are at the bottom. They are
considered unclean, especially by the more "pure" upper
castes.
19. • BABY KOCHAMMA
- selfish, self-centered, snippy, and just
downright mean
- Pappachi’s sister
20. •PAPPACHI
-is Estha and Rahel's grandfather, Ammu and
Chacko’s father
-once an Imperial Entomologist, which is a
frou-frou way of saying that he studied bugs for
the government. His biggest failure in life came
from his biggest triumph: he discovered a rare
breed of moth, but he didn't get credit or even
naming rights for his discovery
-beats his wife regularly
21. •MAMMACHI
- Chacko and Ammu's mother and Estha
and Rahel's grandmother
- nearly blind and plays a mean violin