Dr. Vipin Kumar Pandey & Punam Pandey 
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things 
A Critical Exploration of Realism & Romance

Arundhati Roy, activist par excellance has ardent skill of sketching the picture of the time and environment. She presents post sixties India before us. Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things: A Critical Exploration of Realism & Romance reveals the reality barely and has been a part of Roys intention to cover the bare bones of story with details of social and historical setting and scenario in order to give the reader a feel of patterns of living and daily routine. Many social burning issues and concerns which should be seriously intimated and brooded upon is raised by the novelist in The God of Small Things got much interpretation in detail in the present book. Arunthati Roys approach to life and her art are modernistic and is recognized as a harsh critic of the traditional way of Indian life especially the one that Indians have been leading. Concerning book confers moderate details regarding Roys stances on various issues. The present book entitled Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things: A Critical Exploration of Realism & Romance contains six chapters following conclusion. This work will surely satiate the thirst of the scholars interested in Arundhati Roy and her maiden novel. This work will prove immensely useful to the scholars of English and others who are interested to read Arundhati Roy and her novel The God of Small Things. This book will definitely be capable to confer reservoir of knowledge on Arundhati Roy.