The Voice for the Dispossessed

¿Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.¿ An Ordinary Person¿s Guide to Empire, Arundhati Roy The book ¿The Voice for the Dispossessed¿ analyses the depiction of the sociological and economic conditions of women and emphasises that women attain individuality only when they are economically sound as depicted in Arundhati Roy¿s novel The God of Small Things and her screenplay In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones. The language used, the techniques employed in the fiction and the need for changes in the Indian and world society is also analyzed. This book also gives a pen picture of how Roy attacks the prevailing hypocrisy of the society by attacking the issue of untouchability. The book abounds analyzing the autobiographical elements, the representation of relationship and how absence of money and social position makes the ones in the periphery timid and submissive. It relates to the thematic concerns helpful in studying the personal voice of the writer.