ABSTRACT
Arundhati Roy’s is a voice from the global South purposefully undoing sanctioned ignorances, crossing borders of gender, caste, and class, of the nation state, of the South/North divide. Breaking taboos against coimplicating the lives of the haves and the have-nots-breaking the decorum of the institutionalized academy-Roy’s writing lays bare the workings of power without permission from “the experts.” A feminist, but no bourgeois feminist, she gives herself to the cause of the people while expressing her wariness of the “traditional, mainstream” and “strangely unbending” Left with its rigid ideology (An Ordinary Person’s Guide 115). No wonder Roy ruffl es so many feathers.
