After recognising his abusive behaviour, she leaves him behind, returns to Ayemenem, her hometown in Kerala, and falls in love with Velutha, a man from the oppressed caste, causing something of a ...

Arundhati Roy is known for her evergreen book 'The God of Small Things', an Indian author and political activist who won her Booker Prize in 1997. The book is a literary masterpiece that has caught ...

In the book, much of the action takes place in Ayemenem, India, the village where she grew up and saw the archaic caste system firsthand. Her grandmother also ran a pickle factory like the one ...

May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dust green trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst.

The story takes place in Ayemenem House in 1960, where the dizygotic twins, Estha and Rahel have come back to their hometown after reaching a viable, die-able age. The tale unleashes stereotypes ...

First lines of 'God of Small Things' - May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees.

(NOTE: This article was published in the INDIA TODAY edition dated October 27, 1997) Silent and haunted Ayemenem is an unlikely starting point for a world-conquering journey. The moss-green Meenachal ...

A river accepting the offering.” The idea of the river Goddess Meenachil being a whimsical divine of many moods, finds nimble description in the way Roy makes her a constantly present entity in the ...

Stone pelting was also reported in Thekkumgopuram, Ayemenem, Kodimatha and Kurichi regions of Kottayam. The police lathi-charged at protestors in Erattupetta after an agitation escalated here. In ...

Ayemenem, with its pickle factory, treacherous river, old church painted yellow, rice fields and rubber trees is where Ammu must cope with the claustrophobia of her situation. She is a divorcee with ...