Indian Women Characters By Kamala Markandaya

Sometimes the families that you create are much stronger than your biological families. In the novel, Secret Daughter, the main character, Asha starts off as an immature and inconsiderate young girl. After making the discovery of her biological parents, Asha feels extremely upset and disconcerted. Paradoxically, however, Asha later realizes the true meaning of family and develops into a mature and understanding individual. In Shilpi Somaya Gowda's Secret Daughter, the central character, Asha transforms through out the novel, after making the shocking discovery of her biological parents, which acts as a turning point.

Anita Nair’s “Ladies Coupe” has narratives by six women characters who by chance meet in a train ladies coupe that Akhilandeswari alias Akhila boards in. all the women speak of the repressive forces of a patriarchal India. Though they are from different community or cultural, all women share pain in different means. The novel is a ‘bildungsroman’ either narrating the childhood to adulthood life or the characters liberation by developing confidence to shun the web of patriarchal metaphors.

This paper attempts to examine the fictional projections of Indian girls, to see how they emerge in ideological terms. Their journeys from self-alienation to self-adjustment, their childhood struggles against the hypocrisies and monstrosities of the grown-up world, eventually demolishing the unjust male constructed citadels of power that hinder their progress- are the highlighted issues. The point of comparison between the two novels focused on here is the journey of Rahel in The God of Small Things and Sai in The Inheritance from a lonely childhood to a tragic adulthood passing through a struggle with the complex forces of patriarchal society. Both the novels portray the imaginativeness, inventiveness, independence, rebelliousness, wide-eyed wonder and innocence associated with these young girls.

Indian Voices is a compelling story that spans different Native America cultures across the United States. Within the words of this book Alison Owings writes such an amazing storying about how she evolved in her ignorance of Native American culture to meeting, observing, listening, and, at times, participating in daily lives of American Indians. She began her book talking about her ignorance of Native American life and how the stereotypical teaching in schools of Native Americans is corrupt and represents American Indian lives in the wrong way. Over her eight-year journey, traveling east to west and north to south, documenting over 16 tribal nations, while writing Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans, Owings learned about

After Rukmani and Nathan’s marriage ceremony, when they got on the bullock cart to go to there future home, Rukmani was saddened by the “disgrace” she had suffered by marrying “beneath her”. But later she is glad that she married as she did because she has come to love Nathan and she believes she couldn’t have had a better husband than him, who cared for her so much.

Culture can have a large effect on our daily lives, and can shape our thoughts and behaviors. The society an individual surrounds themselves in influences their decisions. It affects how they perceive themselves, their personal identity and reach their personal life goals. In the novel, The Secret Daughter, Shilpa Somaya Gowda explores the significant impact of social culture on the individual. It is evident through the experience of two women born into two different cultures, Kavita in India and Somer in America, and through the life of Asha, an Indian child adopted into an American home. The author uses these examples to show how different cultures contrast, and change an individual 's thinking and perspectives.

Hanna Rosin illustrates the fact that there is a gender gap in pay for working adults, but the gap is often misinterpreted and not understood in truth by the public. She admits that there is a wage inequality, but that people should be more concerned with why the wage inequality even exists. Even Rosin admits that she doesn’t have a direct answer to why women are paid less, although the numbers are often skewed in society’s understanding. She hypothesizes that women work less hours than men, or maybe that the nation doesn’t value female occupations, and even that women might not be effectively negotiating salaries (Rosin, 2013). The most profound statement that Rosin illustrates is that the discrimination goes beyond the fact that a woman

Bathhouse, a public place which Shirin Neshat depicted in her film Women without Men, as well as a fantasy of imagination of orientalism, is the name of the exhibition which Veronica Bechtold, Rebecca Gross, Tia Harestad, Lisa O’Connor, Selena Skalisky have curated as their dream feminist exhibition. Inside the space of the Bathhouse, the works of seven artists from all over of the world are chosen as part of the exhibition. All of the art prieces articulate the multiplicity of identity through visual representation across medium, utilizing an array of subjects that ranges from pubic hair to female genitalia, which opens up a conversation on how each artist represent differences by visually engaging the audience.

In the past, women were seen as a part of properties of men. They don’t have rights nor power. At most time, they can’t even help themselves. According to Anthony, who was a famous suffragette during the Progressive Era, which is a period of time people were suffering, ” In case of divorce on account of adultery in the husband, the innocent wife is held to possess no right to children or property, unless by special decree of the court”(“Declaration of Rights for Women”). The author illustrates how women were powerless in the past. The laws were unfair to women, so they can’t help themselves.

Mr. Argyle focuses on various themes and comparisons presented in Nectar in a Sieve and juxtaposed them to the ones in Thomas Mann’s poems. By doing so, he elucidates that there is another way to perceive life and not to mundane idea that the destiny of a man is determined by the politics around him. Based on the depth of the analysis he makes, the author’s intended audience would include scholars, and people who are familiar with Indian culture and the distinct association of poverty with social classes. Additionally, he does assume that his audience is familiar with the religious aspects on Indian life. He presents a critical view on how fate and time play crucial roles in this ever-changing life Rukmani and her husband, Nathan experience.

Culture can have a large effect on our daily lives, and can shape our thoughts and behaviors. The society an individual surrounds themselves in influences their decisions. It affects how they perceive themselves, their personal identity and reach their personal life goals. In the novel, The Secret Daughter, Shilpa Somaya Gowda explores the significant impact of social culture on the individual. It is evident through the experience of two women born into two different cultures, Kavita in India and Somer in America, and through the life of Asha, an Indian child adopted into an American home. The author uses these examples to show how different cultures contrast, and change an individual 's thinking and perspectives.

The choices one makes dictates the life they lead. In her novel The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri reflects on the world of the Ganguli family. One particular character, Gogol Ganguli becomes the main focus as Lahiri takes us through his assimilation process, and how he tries to achieve the goal of being socially accepted. Lahiri illustrates the development of Gogol’s quest for his true cultural identity through his personal struggles: his name, his romantic relationships, and his father’s untimely death.

In the novel, Nectar in a Sieve, the author, Kamala Markandaya creates various themes. One theme from the book is that tensions can be caused by modernization and industrial progress. This theme is highly prevalent throughout the story and broadens the reader’s outlook on modernization. Markandaya writes of a primitive village that is going through a severe change. Her ability to form a plethora of characters with different opinions, yet to share one main culture, helps highlight the tensions in the village.

Kamala Das’ poetry tends to explore the man-woman relationship where she tries to uncover and subvert the politicized patriarchal representation of gendered identity. She openly revolts against the traditionally accepted womanhood concepts in the Indian society, and urges the women not to pretend like a nympho that makes them a puppet of masculine world. She raises her voice against the norms of society which want female to fit into the traditional framework. The frankness with which Kamala Das depicts her personal relationship about love, sex, loneliness

Bharati Mukherjee is one of the accomplished diasporic writers. Her writing focuses mainly on women’s suppression, struggle to overcome the problems and attempt to attain identification. Bharati Mukherjee also depicts the cultural conflicts between the East and the West. When a person enters into a new culture from the old one, the conflict arises between the two cultures in the alien land. This paper explores how the female character, Jasmine is portrayed as protagonist in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine. Bharati Mukherjee portrays Indian woman as protagonist in all her novels and the character takes brave decision to emigrate which is the first major step of heroism. The character is portrayed with the capable of facing adventures and creates own happiness and identity, unyielding by conventionality. In Jasmine (1989),