This task is given to us, to enhance our knowledge of political, social, environmental issues, faced by Arundhati Roy in her personal life. How she has faced, at what extent, how she solved each and every problem forth coming in her life and how she overcome those.
- Task assigned by Dilip Barad sir.
About Arundhati Roy:
Arundhati Roy was a controversial author(Shekhar Kapoor's film bandit), actress, environmentalists, an anarchist, a determiner, a facilitator, political & human rights activist, a social&political anti-global critque, a believer in humanity/spirituality and architecture(refer to the above mentioned video for better understanding of her insights towards architecture):
Having passion for writing, preferred inscribing rather than designing.
Who herself has described her experience in (In which Annie gives it those ones[1989] Electric Moon[1992]) where she has shared her wise idea of growing more fruit trees on either side of railway track, by soaking naturally originated fertilization(human defecation&sprinkling from train). Which seems to be the result of her keen observing power. She has also reinstated how she has coped up with her life in such circumstances, when in "School of architecture" she had kept two hens, which were laying regular eggs, by selling those, she was running herself. Which shows her determination and conquering power for life. Many traits are there which can be also briefly discussed in forth coming two novels.
Hence she was in a way a believer of multi-approaches, where she herself has shaped her personality and without any suppression/fear had dared to encounter her life's challenge in each and every scenarios.
Two Novels-
The God Of Small Things:(click to know it's another side)
Here the novelists has shown many happenings of the past by going into the forays of it: caste system, love laws, hereditary social class system, touchable/untouchable like concepts, communism(Indira Gandhi green revolution), human rights, Environmental damage in 1960s.
In this novel, we see the fraternal twins(Rahel&Estha), fated for separation and reunited again. Though however personal despairity they have, they are equally fated to face outside violence, insanity and anarchist world, seems as the victim of inescapism, whether they like or not they have to tolerate and if unable to they may be succumb to death. But in this novel we see both the twins are having sex at last, seems as their loneliness has hurled them both to such extremity, where they are just stuffed up and don't have any filterization system to empty their emotions, so emptying in this way.
Talkhiyaan serial song(Pakistani drama) to know the full story, watch all the series of the serial.
In this novel we see how she has reinstated the darkest happenings of modern India (Godhra train burning & Kashmir insurgency) how exploitation, havoc, massacre of innocent being, stubbornness, dominating invisible power has generated a rebellious intersex woman(gay) and how a critic has criticized that she only says the problems of "Kashmir" but never attempts to say the causes of the problems.
She has also entitled some attributives to the various ministries of India. In the below mentioned video, you will also see some brief ideas of the writer's novel narrated by the narrator of the video and the three characters, representing vivid identities.
Hence we see in the two above mentioned novels that how she has contemplated her experiences, based on politics, society, environment, all Indian affairs of post-Independence and some highlights of pro-independence. How through the various characters she has tried to put her vivid perspectives, which perhaps can't be said directly but through different mediums it is possible.
Arundhati Roy's perspectives towards life:
As we may have an idea from her various works that we had discussed. She was knowing everything happening in and around her, she knew that there are some hidden causes which are giving birth to contemptuous like personality as she has introduced in "the ministry of utmost happiness" various personas of ministries and about their specificities. How environmental issues can be solved, when a person has wise understanding and keen observant like quality as the writer has. How a person rather than succumbing to situation in which he/she is hurled to, can come out from it, if has that determination, positivity and courageous power towards life(as shown in "In which Annie gives it those ones". Also when if anything isn't given as required, how one has to bend one's finger to get something, which is her/his right to deserve(as did to get her degree for graduation, in the same screenplay) no matter if it was morally right or wrong but perhaps it should be humanly right. From here we get an idea of, she perhaps believing in humanity(spirituality) rather than in any aspects/fractions/religions.
She may be inscribed as "anarchist" as she wanted for one of her works to be totally based on anarchism but as a director has some limitation, he/she is demanded to give the script an artistic effect rather than making it dull by sprinkling brooding solemnity on it.
Hence we see here how she has mirrored each and every perspectives of life in her works and through which those have made Space perhaps into the readers/audiences minds, if observed her ideas minutely.
Work citations:
https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2019/11/arundhati-roys-novels.html.
https://www.academia.edu/19531514/ARUNDHATI_ROY_AN_ENDEAVOUR_TO_SAVE_ENVIRONMENT
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