Know the Author: Arundhati Roy
Literature and society have, throughout history, and often even today, shared a relationship of dependency; a literary text, no matter how much we try to, can never be separated from societal concerns while society needs literature to reflect on its own strengths and flaws. Writers have always tried to adhere to the notion that 'literature is a mirror to society'. A mirror indeed, reflecting not just the beauty of the society it reflects, but also its hideousness. Arundhati Roy's works fall into this later function of the mirror. Her works are a documentation of that reality or history which, as mentioned in the above quote, has/had been 'deliberately silenced' or 'preferably unheard' . One might even agree to the argument that literature is where these unheard and silenced voices, find expression and that it is often one of the many reasons behind literary expression. Though I can't recall the very first time I heard the author's name or...