God of Small Things
... In the book The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Velutha is a Paravan which is the very bottom of the caste system. ... Velutha practically manages Paradise Pickles and if it wasn’t for him to keep things up and running Paradise Pickles would not have lasted as long as it had. ... ” -Shulin Nishant"Introduction to Contemporary Indian Literature," Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur It is not a surprise that The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy is difficult to read in the beginning. There are many things going on during the first few chapters of the book and I felt as if I was bombarded with information left and right. But as soon as I continued further on the chapters, everything unfolded slowly and things began to make sense.