![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The grown-up twins, Rahel and Esthappen (Estha), female and male, attend a theatrical dance performance ( kathakali) of scenes from the Mahabharata, scenes that they had witnessed earlier as six-year-old children. The narrative, set in a small community in Kerala, weaves between these two periods. Notes to the text: The God of Small ThingsĪrundhati Roy’s first novel tells the story of non-identical twins from the dual perspective of their childhood and their adult life, when they are re-united after a long separation. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, Chapter 12 (London: Flamingo, 1997), pp.You are welcome to bring your lunch to the session. In Chapter Twelve of the novel, the twins attend a kathakali performance that encapsulates in an indirect, that is to say a symbolic, manner the dilemma of modern India in having to choose between retaining its spiritual capital, saturated with religious and mythological values, or cashing it in in pursuit of secular goals. Kalamandalam Gopi as Dasharadhan ( Creative Commons)Īrundhati Roy’s novel, The God of Small Things, winner of the 1997 Booker Prize, explores the theme of childhood as experienced by non-identical twins of opposite genders in a small, southern Indian community that is engaged in the process of adapting to changing values. ![]()
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