Contribution of Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is one of the best-known representatives of the contemporary generations of Indian writers who write in English. She is also a political activist in human rights and environmental causes. Roy's maiden novel "The God of Small Things" was greeted by unprecedented attention from critics, pundits, and the media alike. This story was a very personal account of a tragic love story cutting across the caste, religion, political divides of India, as told through the eyes of twin children. Daring in its theme and innovative in its concept and language, the novel had many detractors in India but won international acclaim and secured the author the prestigious Booker Prize for the best novel by a Commonwealth author. In the intervening years Roy had used her celebrity status in India to write instead in defence of causes she believes in, to become," a writer for the victims of Modernity ." In1999, Roy pointed her sharp pen against the Narmada Dam, under con