![]() ![]() Even the New Testament says that the poor will always be with us. She wouldn’t be the only crusader to grapple with the dispiriting knowledge that injustice can’t be conclusively defeated, that she can’t save everyone. Perhaps Roy, raised by a Syrian Christian feminist in a culture infused with Hindu cyclicalism, feels that this tension between activism and fatalism defines her work. If she didn’t, she wouldn’t be agitating against it. To demand political change is to endorse the logic of cause and effect Anjum’s traumatization isn’t inevitable but the consequence of an intolerance that Roy clearly believes can be stemmed. Between The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Roy published five volumes of nonfiction, all of them in support of political causes: anti-nuclear campaigns, environmentalism, land rights, and anti-globalization. ![]()
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