• Dr. S. Alphonsa Mary

Many aboriginal groups have separate religious structures and practices similarly that they have their specific language and cultures. The present study analyses show how the internationally acclaimed writer Arundhati Roy expressed her extreme agony to the readers for the Ayemenem village people in Kerala. She tries to show the ugly realities of religion and its core communities such as family, political and social in her novel The God of Small Things, one can see the cry for injustice. She goes on to reveal the smokescreen truth of the country. The researcher likes to focus on three dimensions of society in the novel. (1) How religion disturbs the life of a divorcee from inter-caste marriage. (2) How it affects the lives of innocent children of the broken family and (3) how religion looks at the low caste or the untouchable man. On the other hand, the researcher would like to analyse the term religion with the reference of a few religious books and to what extent the people of high-caste adhere to it.

Religion, Smokescreen, Dimensions, Inter-caste, Untouchable

"Impact of Religion in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no.14-18, September-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFC06004.pdf

"Impact of Religion in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no. pp14-18, September-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFC06004.pdf