Role of Organic Intellectual with Reference to Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Abstract

Arundhati Roy often takes risk to bring the voiceless at the center of academics and mainstream in South Asian context. Rather than giving benefits to elite, centers of power she sacrifices her comfort zone to give justice to the voiceless groups of people. This research paper is a critical discussion of Roy’s The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness in order to prove her as an Organic Intellectual. Her works show her disgust, dissatisfaction, anger, sympathy against injustice and inequality. Roy is a self-produced person, originally belongs from the powerless group of people and dares to question the authority of power politics on the basis of universal principal. Being a genuine, rebellious and reformative personality, she breaks status-quo time and again. She chooses to write the ugly reality of the society, issues related to history, culture and politics. As a daring personality, she actively participates in many social activities and revolutions. Her willingness to be a part of voiceless justifies her as an Organic Intellectual. In contemporary context, there is the dire need of people-friendly intellectual like Roy to deconstruct the layers of hegemony.