Arundhati Roy

The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale. . . .

Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family--their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).

When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river "graygreen."  With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it.

The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it.

The God of Small Things takes on the Big Themes--Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a book that is anchored to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic.
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The God of Small Things

"A richly moving new novel--the first since the author's Booker Prize-winning, internationally celebrated debut, 'The God of Small Things,' went on to become a beloved best seller and enduring classic. 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a place of safety -- in search of meaning, and of love. In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears, just after midnight. In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. In a second-floor apartment, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. At the Jannat Guest House, two people who have known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around each other, as though they have just met. A braided narrative of astonishing force and originality, 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' is at once a love story and a provocation -- a novel as inventive as it is emotionally engaging. It is told with a whisper, in a shout, through joyous tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Its heroes, both present and departed, have been broken by the world we live in -- and then mended by love. For this reason, they will never surrender. How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything. Humane and sensuous, beautifully told, this extraordinary novel demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts."--

MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS.

In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, "Public Power in the Age of Empire," broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now! and Alternative Radio, writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly examines the limits to democracy in the world today. Bringing the same care to her prose that she brought to her Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things, Roy discusses the need for social movements to contest the occupation of Iraq and the reduction of "democracy" to elections with no meaningful alternatives allowed. She explores the dangers of the "NGO-ization of resistance," shows how governments that block nonviolent dissent in fact encourage terrorism, and examines the role of the corporate media in marginalizing oppositional voices.

Public Power in the Age of Empire

Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as “my shelter and my storm.”

“Heart-smashed” by her mother Mary’s death in September 2022 yet puzzled and “more than a little ashamed” by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, “not because I didn’t love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her.” And so begins this astonishing, sometimes disturbing, and surprisingly funny memoir of the author’s journey from her childhood in Kerala, India, where her single mother founded a school, to the writing of her prizewinning novels and essays, through today.

With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels, The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace—a memoir like no other.


Mother Mary Comes to Me

رواية

إله الأشياء الصغيرة

Barbara Epstein

A Mosaic

India

Hanging of Afzal Guru and the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament

Power Politics

رب الأشياء الصغيرة

Francesc Roca

Retórica bélica

Das Ministerium des äußersten Glücks

An Ordinary Person’s Guide To Empire

Elogiado livro de estréia da indiana Arundhati Roy, O deus das pequenas coisas narra a história dos gêmeos Rahel e Estha, que, na Índia de 1969, crescem entre os caldeirões de geléia de banana e as pilhas de grãos de pimenta da fábrica da avó cega. Armados da inocência invencível das crianças, os dois tentam inventar uma infância à sombra da ruína que é sua família - a mãe, a solitária e adorável Ammu; o delicioso tio Chacho; a inimiga Baby Kochamma e o fantasma de uma mariposa que um dia pertenceu a um entomologista imperial. Rahel e Estha descobrem que as coisas podem mudar num só dia, que as vidas podem ter seu rumo alterado e assumir novas - e feias - formas. Descobrem que elas podem até cessar para sempre. Ancorada na angústia mas alimentada pela magia e por um profundo conhecimento, esta pequena obra-prima ganhou o prêmio britânico Booker Prize de 1997, foi editada em 36 países e encabeçou por semanas a lista de mais vendidos na Grã-Bretanha, Austrália, Índia e Noruega, na época de seu lançamento.

O deus das pequenas coisas

With The Doctor and the Saint

In Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy - a nation of 1.2 billion, where the country' s 100 richest people own assets worth one quarter of India's gross domestic product. Ferocious and clear-sighted, this is a searing portrait of a nation haunted by ghosts: the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt; the hundreds of millions who live on less than two dollars a day. It is the story of how the largest democracy in the world, with over 800 million voting in the last election, answers to the demands of globalized capitalism, subjecting millions of people to inequality and exploitation. Roy shows how the mega-corporations, modern robber barons plundering India's natural resources, use brute force, as well as a wide range of NGOs and foundations, to sway government and policy making in India.

A Ghost Story

Capitalism

These are articles and speeches given by her in English translated to into Telugu and brought as a collection.
These are translated to Telugu By ::  Arvini Rajendra Babu   |   Prasaanti   |   P.Varalakshmi   |   Venkata Kishan Prasad

స్వేఛ్చ   |   ఫాసిజం   |   కాల్పనిక సాహిత్యం 

ఆజాదీ  |  Aajaadee 

Esta es la historia de tres generaciones de una familia de la región de Kerala, en el sur de la India, que se desperdiga por el mundo y se reencuentra en su tierra natal. Una historia que es muchas historias. La de la niña inglesa Sophie Moll que se ahogó en un río y cuya muerte accidental marcó para siempre las vidas de quienes se vieron implicados. La de dos gemelos –Estha y Rahel– que vivieron veintitrés años separados. La de Ammu, la madre de los gemelos, y sus furtivos amores adúlteros. La del hermano de Ammu, marxista educado en Oxford y divorciado de una inglesa. La de los abuelos, que en su juventud cultivaron la entomología y las pasiones prohibidas. Ésta es la historia de una familia en unos tiempos convulsos en los que todo puede cambiar en un día y en un país cuyas esencias parecen eternas. Esta apasionante saga familiar es un gozoso festín literario en el que se entremezclan el amor y la muerte, las pasiones que rompen tabúes y los deseos inalcanzables, la lucha por la justicia y el dolor causado por la pérdida de la inocencia, el peso del pasado y las aristas del presente. Arundhati Roy ha sido comparada por esta novela prodigiosa con Gabriel García Márquez y con Salman Rushdie por sus des tellos de realismo mágico y su exquisito pulso narrativo.

El dios de las pequeñas cosas

"Elogiado livro de estréia da indiana Arundhati Roy, O deus das pequenas coisas narra a história dos gêmeos Rahel e Estha, que, na Índia de 1969, crescem entre os caldeirões de geléia de banana e as pilhas de grãos de pimenta da fábrica da avó cega. Armados da inocência invencível das crianças, os dois tentam inventar uma infância à sombra da ruína que é sua família - a mãe, a solitária e adorável Ammu; o delicioso tio Chacho; a inimiga Baby Kochamma e o fantasma de uma mariposa que um dia pertenceu a um entomologista imperial. Rahel e Estha descobrem que as coisas podem mudar num só dia, que as vidas podem ter seu rumo alterado e assumir novas - e feias - formas. Descobrem que elas podem até cessar para sempre." -- Provided by publisher

The internationally acclaimed author of "The God of Small Things" explores the politics of writing and the human and environmental price of "development".

The chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom'-is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what the Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu nationalism. Even as Arundhati Roy began to ask what lay between these two calls for freedom-a chasm or a bridge?-the streets fell silent. Not only in India but all over the world. Covid-19 brought with it another, more terrible, understanding of Azadi, making a nonsense of international borders, incarcerating whole populations, and bringing the modern world to a halt like nothing else ever could. In this series of electrifying essays, Arundhati Roy challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism. The essays include meditations on language, public as well as private, and on the role of fiction and alternative imaginations in these disturbing times. The pandemic, Roy says, is a portal between one world and another. For all the illness and devastation it has left in its wake, it is an invitation to the human race, an opportunity, to imagine another world.

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