Analysis Of Bhabani Bhattacharya 's ' Big Three '

“The Hunger Artist”, written by Franz Kafka just before his death, has been interpreted in many ways from different perspectives. It is a story about a man known as “the hunger artist” who practices fasting performance from town to town with his manager. During the peak of his career life, people from all over the surrounding area come to watch his performance. But later, the audience have gradually lost interest in his fasting performance; and now the fasting performance is out of vogue. Yet the hunger artist still insists on it until his death. It is a quite complex story and there is no univocal interpretation to give a full

The Third and Final Continent is the final story of the nine compilations of short stories. This reflects the life of Lahiri’s father and mother. In which, she talk about the immigrant experience and alienation of the librarian that revolves around in London and Boston according to the different taste of the reader. This tells about the Bengali gentleman moved to London and finally settled in Boston where he begins loving his wife after a hundred year old lady certifies her as perfect.

Her yearning for the Indian sensibility bears the stamp of a vagrant searching for her lost home. She is as if in self exile. Thus, the collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri are based on the predicaments and inner turmoils of Indian immigrants in the United States. These characters have been uprooted from the secure life mode of a traditional set up and are struggling to cope with the new environment by learning new strategies and cope up methods, but in order to provide an alternate life mode, such learning has to be lived and experienced at first hand. Her fiction establishes a certain Indo-American cultural link, in the post colonial context. She had made a search for identity with an emotional empathy through her female protagonists. The greatness of her writings is in making the tale of human idiosyncrasies thought-provoking and soul searching. Jhumpa Lahiri does not explicitly points out the remedy. She has presented all women characters as they are in real life, but these characters, in one way for the other, teach the lesson of humility and equality, and motivate us to retain the good of the past in the face of the challenge of life with the head held high almost all the stories end on a positive note, with the hope of a

“It may be that writers in my position, exiles, or emigrants, are haunted by some sense of loss, some urge to reclaim, to look back, even at the risk of being mutilated into pillars of salt. But if we do look back, we must do in the knowledge – which give rise to profound uncertainties – that our physical alienation from India almost inevitably means that we will not be capable of reclaiming precisely the thing that was lost, that we will, in short, create fictions, not actual cities or villages, but invisible ones, imaginary homelands, India of the mind.” Anonymous

Devdas as the word comes to mind it conjures up the visage of a haggard, world-weary, lovelorn soul, driving himself to drink and hurtling on relentlessly on the path to self-destruction. The ‘Devdas Metaphor’, a time-honoured, enduring tragic symbol of unfulfilled love, has captivated readers and film-going audiences for the better part of a century now. Devdas has several adaptations and translations and therefore it is good to look at the specific ways in which the Devdas metaphor has engaged our imagination over several generations. Saratchandra Chattopadhyay’s Devdas was published in Bengali in 1917. It was also a time when the forty-year old writer has just experienced his meteoric rise to fame. Saratchandra Chattopadhyay

The Serpent and the Rope, Raja Rao’s second novel, was an immediate success. Its popularity can be measured as it has received maximum number of critical responses, not only in India but from abroad too, among all his novels. Add to that, announcement of the Sahitya Akademi award for the year 1963 attracted greater readership and academic demand. It has been prescribed in the syllabi of many universities. It is the story of Ramaswamy, a young Brahmin from the south India. He goes to France to do research in history, there meets and marries Madeleine, a teacher of history, but drift apart gradually as Ramaswamy comes to realize the gulf between the Indian and Western concepts of love, marriage, and family. It is important to note that the gap

The dominant idiom of Indian writing today is firmly entrenched in pain, anxiety of displacement, nostalgia, yearning to belong to roots, and so on. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss are two such novels that explore the tragedy of man on several levels using different perspectives. Both the novels are about averted culture-clash tragedies, homogeneity vs. heterogeneity, and about Indian sensibilities.

Bharathi Mukherjee’s later novels Jasmine(1989), The Holder of the World(1993) and Leave It to Me(1997) comprised her last creative phase conveniently termed here as the phase of immigration. By now she has travelled a long distance in terms of thematic perception and character portrayal. Beginning with an expatriate’s uprooted identity in the early 70’s, her creative faculty explored the transitional dilemma of characters in early 80’s, whose acculturation bids were occasionally thwarted by the complexity of cultural plurality in the adopted land. However, after the publication of The Middleman(1998), the process of cultural acclimatization appears to be complete and the characters betray the confidence of an immigrant, almost a naturalized citizen, in facing the challenges of human life.

Literature means which reflects the life. Likewise Adiga has wrote the novels which reflect the day-to-day life of Mumbai. To conclude, Adiga has presented both the novels “The White Tiger” and “Last Man In Tower” with the common themes of corruption, identity crisis, religious belif during Modernization and globalization in India. The main theme presents, the fact of money changes a person to be a murderer though they are a servant or any close relation to anybody. Both the novel has the theme of identity crisis.

My hunger’s pride lies in novels, traveling, different cultures, theories, in ethic and aesthetic. Literature captures it all. It revels in self inventing and creating your self along the way of learning from others and of others. It is important to me because it has taught me the importance of the finer

Throughout The Elephant vanishes by Haruki Murakami, associations with food and hunger are made. Association with food and hunger acts as a metaphor to suggest the idea of Japanese people desiring an intimate human relationship. This theme is specifically constructed in the following stories within The Elephant Vanishes: The Second Bakery Attack, and The Window From the start of The Second Bakery Attack hunger is used as a metaphor and is already a major element of the story.

People may speak out words in life that may affect themselves and other after losing someone that was significant, which can connect to Indian and Pakistani literature. All parts of a struggle coming back to a character facing the past being alone in life can create emotions overall. Readers must comprehend that people in society today can relate to Indian and Pakistani literature where one feels alone. A reader who looks at Indian and Pakistani literature can understand that people with struggles in India or Pakistan countries can go through a lot with their emotional past. For the most part, the significance of Indian and Pakistani literature is to make a reader acknowledge how going through a tough situation can cause circumstances that get emotional for a character's self and others around them. In today's society, people may associate to this literature to distinguish a relationship with people being alone through the countries India and

The author depicts the hunger artist as a tragic figure, whose art of fasting, which was once widely appreciated by the world, became totally neglected and forgotten. For the hunger artist whose only joy and satisfaction in life is the excitement and admiration of the spectators, when that excitement turns into disgust and the admiration turns into suspicion, so did the satisfaction the artist felt at the end of each fasting performance. Alas, he became increasingly despondent and furious at the world for not understanding his art. Yet, the hunger artist can’t just give up his fasting ways, because for one thing he fasted for so long he became too fanatically devoted to fasting; for another, he’s too old in his years it’s not easy to adopt

Hunger by Hamsun Kunt is a monologue mainly related to the struggling life of an artist who is starving for meals but trying to establish his literary reputation. It is also considered as an autobiographical work of Norweign writer, who is intellectual, but wandering around in Christiana, Oslo trying to earn money to pay for his meals while keeping to maintain his dignity and purity of his artistic thoughts. Hunger of Hamsun shows how narrator is proud to be a human but failures in life humiliate his humanity. He struggles hard to earn his meals and stays hungry for days, and writing of philosophical thoughts and articles in this extreme poverty seems to be ridiculous. So it focuses on the effects of hunger on the physical conditions and psyche of a lonely man. Hunger is also a kind of protest work to the socially focused novels of nineteenth century. Hamsun sets his own code of chivalry and whatever money and clothes he gets, he gives those to needy and vagrant children and himself turns in stealing. Because of starvation and hunger his physical, mental and psychological health deteriorates, he suffers from a great financial and artistic crisis. Hunger disintegrates his ability to write and no one wants to publish his work except, a kind newspaper editor who occasionally gives him a little money. Sometimes, he has to live without food for one, two or more days. Though this unknown writer is starving with hunger but he is proud of himself and keeps his morale high. He feels that he is

Folklore superstitions and even the supernatural are some of the favourite themes of Khushwant Singh. He himself has said that his “roots are in the dunghill of a tiny Indian village”. Khushwant Singh achieves dual purpose by the use of these elements. First, the elements make the stories interesting and secondly, they fulfil the satirical purpose of the author. In additions, the elements make stories both romantic and realistic. The folklore and the supernatural belong to the fairy land. They are the elements of fantasy. But they are followed by the people in villages even at the cost of death. This is reality in Indian