Aymanam is a village in Kottayam District, Kerala, India made famous by Arundhati Roy'snovel "The God of Small Things". , For the district with the same name, see Kottayam district. ... , Kerala ( ; Malayalam: കേരളം; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India. ... Suzanna Arundhati Roy[1] (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, writer and activist. ... The saxon genitive is the traditional term used for the s word ending in the English language. ... This article is about the literary concept. ... The God of Small Things (1997) is a semi-autobiographical, politically charged novel by Indian author Arundhati Roy. ...
Ay in Dravidic language means Five and Vanam in Sanskrit means Forests. Ayvanam is Aymanam, the land of five forest.
Aymanam borders Vembanad Lake near Kumarakom. Two third of Aymanam is ricefields two meters below msl fertiled by Meenachil river. Floods in low lying areas around June July August is common.
St George Jacobite Srian Church, Kallumkathara is situated nearby. IT IS ATTENDED BY THE SYRIAN CHRISTIANS OF THE LOCALITY. Ancient syrian christian families like Parambil Tharakan family, Pulikkapartambil family have their ancient THARAWADS located in Aymanam.
Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father, a tea planter by profession.
She spent her childhood in Aymanam, near Kerala, schooling in Corpus Christie.
She left Kerala for Delhi at age 16, and embarked on a bohemian lifestyle, staying in a small hut with a tin roof within the walls of Delhi's Feroz shah Kotla and making a living selling empty bottles.
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