The sense of place in Arundati Roy’s
The God of Small Things
A critique
by
Usha Kishore

The God of Small Things is set in the lush green village of Ayemenem that nestles next to the Kumarakom lake-resort  on the Vembanad Lake, the largest backwater in Kerala . The idyllic setting of the novel with palm fronds, mangroves, backwaters and [...]

The first mention of Jews in India occurs in The Bible (The Book of Esther) – dating from the 2nd Century B.C.E.  Due to their numerical insignificance, Indian Jews are sometimes unfamiliar within and without the Indian subcontinent.  This leads one to question whether Indian Jews are in jeopardy of double marginalisation?
 
• in the Indian Context  [...]