Arundhati Roys "the God of Small Things has widely been hailed as the finest, the most bold and artistically adventurous novel to appear in recent years in Indian English. It is vibrant with a rebellious spirit which seeks to break away from the conventional paradigms in its selection of a challenging theme and narrative modes. By highlighting the age-old anguishes of the untouchable represented here in Velutha, the helpless women in a middle class traditional family, Ammu and her daughter Rahel, Arundhati Roy critiques the deep-rooted social conventions of exploitation of those living on the...