The novel The God of Small Things is a heart-rending story about seven years old Estha and Rahel, twins. Estha and Rahel along with their mother live in their maternal grandparents’ house in Ayemenem, Kerala following Ammu’s divorce. Ammu works in the family’s pickle factory in spite of which she and her kids are denied any rights, let alone love, by her Oxford returned brother Chacko who considers them nothing less than millstones around his neck. There are gender clashes in the novel. The story goes further when Chacko’s ex-wife Margaret brings their daughter Sophie to Ayemenem on a visit from London. The ill-fated visit ends in the demise of Sophie for which Estha and Rahel have to pay a heavy price. The kids are the biggest victims as they are snatched of their childhood, their happiness sought in small things. The story reveals History’s cruel way of taking revenge at people who break the Love Laws. ‘The laws that lay down who should be loved, how and how much.’ This paper describes the marginalized depiction of characters in The God of Small Things.