The Power Politics and the Marginalized: A Study of Arundhati Roy’s the Colonization of Knowledge

Abstract

Arundhati Roy is a contemporary writer, who is known for her revolutionary political essays and interviews. She writes and speaks about and for marginalized people. The marginalized people are those, whose voices are deliberately silenced by the power politics. In all her interviews she has boldly recorded the pains, sufferings, and struggles of the people in the periphery. Similarly, this interview, “The Colonization of Knowledge” also highlights the power operations and the effects of power operations on the life of suppressed people. In India, people are marginalized based on their ethnicity, community, caste, class, religion, and language. Roy speaks about all these types of discrimination. Besides, she highlights the reasons behind the discrimination to give clarity to her readers. This paper will focus on Roy’s perspectives on the displacement of marginalized people, the idea of nationalism, and the effects of globalization.