An Unjustified Justice - A Study of Arundhati Roy’s Broken Republic

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to critically analyze Roy’s text Broken Republic. Roy has personally lived with the tribals, who are considered as fourth world citizens, of Dongria Kondh of Odisha, India. She has tried to make a comparative study between the real world and virtual world of these tribais who are also recognised as naxalites by the govt. of India. The diplomacy of Indian government over forest protection laws and rehabilitation of the displaced people is exposed in the book. The Indian government has been criticized by the Roy for their claiming of the war on the poorest people of the country.  This paper is an analysis of all the four parts of the book which highlights various naxal issues and attacks the government on various grounds like government’s attitude and approach towards the Maoist, Roy’s  personal encounters with the Naxals and insight to the functioning, motives and methodology of the Maoists,  shows how the development of the country has not reached down to the tribals of the country and it is at the cost of dehabilitating the poor tribals without any compensation and lastly there is an attack on the practice of ‘corporate Philanthropy’ in India.