With The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017) Arundhati Roy returns to fiction after twenty years of non-fiction and political journalism. With her long-awaited second novel, Roy also leaves behind the ambiguous status of the single-novel author. Her works certainly reflects bitter reality of society. She does not hesitate either to write or speak on any anti-social issue. Fantasy, fairy tale or romance are hardly found in her work rather she prefers to decipher the suffering of mankind. She highlights mostly the underprivileged and deprived section of the society-hijras, political rebels, the deserted baby girls, women who will not know their place in the main stream of the society , the poor, the present article aims to look at Unheard Story of Small Things in her present novel set within the narrative of Roy’s experience with India’s others.
Lecturer in English, Jazan University, Jazan
