DISCRIMINATION OF CLASS AS REFLECTED IN 'THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS' BY ARUNDHATI ROY

Arundhati Roy who is the writer activist has always put her best efforts to communicate to the outside world about injustice that is happening to the underprivileged people. She also makes sense of what we have to do to be fully alive in our world-getting close to and listening to those for whom this world has become intolerable. She becomes the mouthpiece of the marginal people so that the Centre can hear and listen to those otherwise unheard voices and find solution to the problems as much as possible. As the writer feels, it becomes imperative to outline the shape of the beast (kinds of injustice) in order to bring it down. She also feels that unless people unite, assess their own situations, bring pressure on the authorities in a united manner, and actively participate in the activities which need to be done for them, no meaningful changes can come about. Unless there is a dawn of an era of people’s resistance, no development in its real sense can be brought about. This paper is a humble effort to project how Arundhati Roy has represented in her fiction ‘The God of Small Things’, the plight of the lower class people amidst the so called educated society which leaves us to question the meaning of development in the society.