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Arundhati Roy in Indian Languages—What Distances?Vijaya Kumaran C.P.V.fgndi •Alice Truax wrote in her literary review in NewYork Times (25May, 1997) that 'the quality of Ms. Roy's narration is so extraordinary— at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple —that the reader remains enthralled all the way through to its agonizingfinish.' Roy uses a variety of English in The God of Small Thingsand she is successful to communicate to the world the culture sherepresents. The beauty of her novel lies in the use of Indian Englishand the varieties of techniques she uses. She uses that English, whichis a distorted one from the standard conventional use of wordsand sentences from regional languages in India apart from the useof subjectless sentences, faulty spellings, capital letters, use of italics,single word sentences, change of parts of speech, clustering ofadjectives, nouns and deviation from normal word order etc., inEnglish. That English is a kind of 'Manglish' (Malayalam-English)and 'Hinglish' (Hindi-English) as far as the Indians are concerned,but for the international readers she had the Oxford and Cambridgeversions too. In her forward to the Malayalam translation ofArundhati Roy, the acclaimed story writer Smt. Priya A.S. disclosedthat 'The God of Small Things' is a book which is intranslatable,and this sounds like the referred title of Raji Narasimhan in HindiDiscourse Writing. Priya took it as a challenge to pen the wholediscourse which felt her like 'a sea of sorrow.' To make more clearspecifically, 'it is the sorrow of those, who are haves and who haveall but, those marginalised.' Raji took it for granted the languageApril-June 2013 :: 133