Autobiographical elements in ‘THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS’

‘THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS’ An Autobiography Arundhati Roy was the product of 20 th century who wrote a number of fictional pieces which have won fame for her all over the world. She writes in the preface of her famous novel ‘The God of Small Things’; “My fiction is an inextricable mix of experience and imagination.” Biography is a term in English Literature which means the true story of the life of someone written by someone else. But Roy’s grand masterpiece is an autobiography in which a writer narrates the actual story of one’s own life though the characters may be named differently. Nevertheless, we find a number of autobiographical elements in Roy’s well reputed novel ‘The God of Small Things’. Rahel and Estha were twins (brother and sister) who spent their early childhood in Ayemenem House, Kerala, India. Their father (Babu) was an assistant manager at a tea shop in Assam. Roy, the writer, had been living with her real brother ‘Lalit kumar Christopher Roy’ in Ayemenem House which