The present volume, comprising more than fourteen scholarly papers, offers a critical appraisal of Arundhati Roy as a novelist and provides varied perspectives on the major aspects of her debut novel The God of Small Things. The contributors to the volume comprises an august group of scholars and academics like Jaydipsinh Dodiya, Dr. Joya Chakravarty, Dr. Pramod K. Nayar, Dr. K.Ratna Shiela Mani, Dr. K.V. Surendran, Dr. K.K. John, Dr. C. Gopinatha Pillai, Nandini Nayar, Vinita Bhatnagar, Dr. Neelam Tikkha, Anil Kinger, Twinkle B. Manavar, Amar Nath Prasad, Indravadan Purohit and Dushyant Nimavat. The present volume will be an asset to those who want to read and study Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things from various critical angles. Arundhati Roy, the first Indian writer to win the prestigious Booker Prize, is gifted with an extraordinary creative genius. Her debut novel The God of Small Things fulfils the highest demand of the art of fiction. Even on the global level the volume will be of great significance as The God of Small Things is being translated into a number of languages all over the world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jaydipsinh Dodiya
Jaydipsinh Kisabhai Dodiya teaches at Smt. Surekhaben Hasmukhbhai Gardi Institute of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Saurashtra University, Rajkot. He also taught English for eight years at Shardagram College in Mangrol. He has presented research papers at several national and international seminars held in India and abroad. He has edited a number of books including The Fiction of Rohinton Mistry, The Plays of Girish Karnad, The Fiction of Shobha De, Contemporary Indian Writing in English, Critical Perspectives on the Ramayana and The Novels of Rohinton Mistry. Indian English Fiction is the area of his specialization. He has visited Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand for academic pursuits. He is an ex-Member of Syndicate, Academic Council and Board of University Teaching of Saurashtra University, Rojkot. He has been the Member of Senate as well as the President of Saurashtra University Teachers' Association (SUTA) for the last two terms. For his doctorate degree he worked under supervision of Prof. Avadhesh Kumar Singh on the Parsi novelists in English with special reference to Firdaus Kanga, Rohinton Mistry, Farrukh Dhondy and Bapsi Sidhwa. He is a research guide and now ten scholars are working with him for their Ph.D. dissertation.
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