Author(s): B. K. Mohan Kumar

Abstract: This article rigorously examines the radical intellectual and activist oeuvre of Arundhati Roy as a sustained critique of global capitalism, imperialism, and environmental destruction in contemporary India. Traversing both her fiction—The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017)—and her robust non-fiction collections, including The Algebra of Infinite Justice(2001), Capitalism: A Ghost Story (2014), and The End of Imagination (1998), the paper situates Roy at the intersection of postcolonial, eco-critical, and anti-imperialist literary traditions. Through close reading and critical synthesis, the essay explores how Roy exposes the collusion between neoliberal market dynamics, military force, and environmental devastation, and how she re-theorises resistance through polyphonic narrative, ethical engagement, and planetary solidarity. The argument asserts that Roy’s corpus functions as both a challenge and an alternative to twenty-first century empire, making her a unique political writer whose moral interventions hold continued global significance

Keywords: Arundhati Roy, capitalism, imperialism, ecology, postcolonialism, resistance, neoliberalism.

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.3.5.39