• Dr.Shagufta Anjum

  Author

Great literature should tell us about social realities as class exploitation, injustice and above all the insult and abuse the subaltern. Arundhati Roy tries to unveil the Indian contemporary society through this Booker prize winning novel The God of Small Things. This novel published in 1996 has universal appeal because it voices the
hidden and suppressed emotions of subaltern. It is a Panorama of Indian social life. It shows the endless struggle of women and untouchables for carving their identity in this cruel, conservative and elite dominating society. They are vulnerable and deserted too so have to suffer at the hands of law makers. Arundhati Roy digs out the inner realities of Indian soil and gives a new depth and dimension to Indo –Anglian Literature. Identity development in subalterns needs to be
seen in the context of their life experience. It is necessarily bound to their sense of connection to others. .Being a social activist She raises the existential questions of subalterns and their quest for identity with a silent voice in this modern, democratic and complex world.
The hypothesis of this paper is to echo the silent voice of subaltern for their identity through the main characters as Ammu and Velutha who have feeble voice lost in the cacophony of life. 

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