Summary Of The Character Of Rajam Krishnan

Mahasweta Devi’s short story, “Giribala,” is about the life of Giribala, a girl of Talsana village located in India. Born into a caste in a time when it was still customary to pay a bride-price, Giri is sold to Aulchand by her father. From this point on, we see a series of unfortunate, tragic events that take place in Giri’s life as a result of the circumstances surrounding Giri’s life. There are many issues in Giri’s life in India that Devi highlights to readers. First, the economic instability of the village leads to an extremely poor quality of life for the lower, working classes. Next, the cruel role of women determined by men in society is to either satisfy the sexual desires of men or to reproduce offspring who can work or be sold off to marriages. There are also other social norms and beliefs which discriminate against women that will be discussed.

Women in India were unaware of their miserable condition. It is in the post independence period the women’s quest for identity of her own commenced. The 20th century saw the shift from outer to inner sensibilities and no one can better understand a man or woman better a feminine writer. In modern English fiction a number of women novelists have arrived on the literary scene, they have set out making new forays in to the world of women. Nayantara Sahgal being a feminist writer has emphasized in her novels on freedom and a new definition of the New Women. Sahgal’s heroines are well aware of the injustice done to them in their marriage and they come out of this traditional bond.

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.

Shashi Deshpande is one of the famous contemporary Indian novelists in English. She writes about the conflict between tradition and modernity in relation to women in middle class society. Shashi Deshpande’s novel deals with the theme of the quest for a female identity. The complexities of man-woman relationship especially in the context of marriage, the trauma of a disturbed adolescence. The Indian woman has for years been a silent sufferer. While she has played different roles-as a wife, mother, sister and daughter, she has never been able to claim her own individuality. Shashi Deshpande has emerged as a writer possessing deep insight into the female psyche. Focusing on the marital relation she seeks to expose the tradition

After going through this novel, “The hero’s walk” Nandana, the young girl has no other option than to live with her grandparents. In passing days, she may be adapted to Indian culture. Her grandfather Sripathi as usual writer letter to the editor of the News paper starting, “early this morning, at Toturpuram beach, I saw the most amazing sight....”

Ismat Chughtai, the Urdu writer of fierce feminist sentiments, has never got the accolades that have been bestowed upon her contemporaries- especially male contemporaries. She is remembered as a controversial writer who did not hide anything in her narratives; and hence irked her contemporary society in all possible manners. I am of the opinion that it is high time to re-evaluate the works of Ismat Chughtai by foregrounding her unflinching anti-hegemonic sentiments. Chughtai was a Feminist who challenged the status-quos and prudery of the Indian culture shaped up during the Victorian era. Her collection of short stories raised such a storm all across the country that she even had to face the court of law. The primary charge labelled against

As her autobiography tells us , kamala Das whose maiden name was Madhavikkutty first attended a European school in Calcutta, then the Elementary school at Punnayurkulam, her birth place, and then a boarding school run by the roman catholic nuns. At the age of 15 Kamala Das was married to Mr.Das, an official in the Reserve Bank of India, Bombay , where her life became miserable in the company of her nonchalant, lustful husband. Kamala Das writes in both Malayalm and English, and has published eleven books in her mother tongue and three books of poems in English. Her poetical collections in English are: Summer in Calcutta (1965), The Descendants (1967), and The Old Playhouse and Other Poems (1973). She has collaborated with Pritish Nandy in Tonight. This Savage Rite(1979), a collection of their love poems. Her utobiography , My Story ,which was first serialized in The Current Weekly of Bombay from January to December, 1974, has come out as an independent work.(1976). She has also published a novel in English under the title, Alphabet of Lust(1976).Besides her poetical and prose works , Kamala Das has written extensively for various popular magazines and

Her heroines are sensitive, intelligent and career-oriented. Study of her novels reveals how poignantly, she expresses the frustration and disappointments of women who experience social and cultural oppression in the male-dominated society. Shashi Deshpande started her writing career all of a sudden. In her own terms: “There was really nothing. It was very strange. May be it was there waiting inside and suddenly at one moment, it came out. Until then, I was looking around to see what I could do. I was very unhappy not doing anything, just looking after the home and children. It was perhaps a kind of claustrophobic existence. I could feel something building up in me and that caused the outburst. Otherwise, it would have perhaps led to a breakdown.”(“Denying the otherness” II) Her novels are autobiographical in nature depicting her own experiences of the educated middle class Indian women’s predicament and they tend to be gender specific. That Long Silence is a saga of suppressed women prisoned in the room of silence. It is Jaya’s journey in search of one’s true self who confronts the gender oriented traditional

Bell writes, “Tired of being a good girl who met all her parents’ and community’s expectations, Jayanthi began casually hooking up with men after college, often meeting several in one night” (33). Initially, Jayanthi adopted the “good girl” strategy as a part of society’s expectations and fulfilled her parents’ desire of being a typical Indian girl. In other words, Jayanthi’s initial approach to her reality as well as her personal identity was to act according to her parents’ and society’s expectations. However, throughout the passage of time, Jayanthi becomes “tired” of the “good girl strategy” as she still did not find her sense of identity but instead, her initial reality was altered because she did not embrace who she was. Essentially, Jayanthi did not embrace her reality at present as she feels that her life was determined by her family’s expectations. In essence, her pre-conceived reality of being a typical Indian daughter was altered because of her individual desire to find her sense of identity that is more complicated than that laid out from her cultural background.

Since then, Annie had not any male friends; she grows up “in a world populated by women” (Paravisini-Gebert 111), which is ??? in the Caribbean Bildungsroman. In Annie’s development the female figures like Mrs John, Ma Chess, Ma Jolie, Gwen and the Red Girl play important roles, instead of male characters. Annie sees beautifulness only from female characters: “When my eyes rested on my father, I didn’t think very much of the way he looked. But when my eyes rested on my mother, I found her beautiful” (Annie 18). Mistron’s study shows that women play a central role in the domestic domain in West India. Caribbean mothers have close and strong relationships with their children, especially with her daughters. They train a young generation, in return, they expect from their children a care, when they are old. Children often stay at home until their twenties or their marriage. Annie’s father, for example, shares bed with his grandmother, who brought up him, until he was eighteen years

Much of the conflict in Lahiri’s short stories stems from feelings she experienced early in her life. Her experience as an outsider and her resentment of her family’s Indian heritage provided the inspiration for much of her writing. She uses the conflict inside marriage to explore feelings of personal identity and alienation in her short stories. Her characters face many personal difficulties in their marriages. “Marriage is the unifying theme for the collection, and is the key element in most stories” (Bess 167).

Thus, to give voice to the suffocated psyche and suppressed desire of woman and lay bare ambitions and frustrations and soothe the aches and pains has been primary focus in Deshpande’s writing. Her works show that compromise is what characterizes the life of the common run of the middle-class women in India. Unable to defy social conventions or traditional morality,

The political and social events of the sixties and the seventies along with growing opportunities of education and employment for women encourage women belonging to the urban middle class to engage in literary activities. The thematic concerns of these women writers have been cantering around women related issues. The social setting for most of these writings is the urban middle class and the protagonist is, more often than not, a woman. Indian Culture treats women with utmost reverence. Women are identified with Adi Shakti or the primordial energy. Woman’s avatar as mother treated as highest manifestation of human relationship; It is the mother who gets precedence over all other principles of life including father and god in importance. She

All characters in the novel are living in a man’s world; nevertheless, the author has tried to change this world by the help of her characters. She shows a myriad of opportunities and different paths of life that woman can take, and more importantly she does not show a perfect world, where women get everything they want, she shows a world where woman do make mistakes, but at the same time they are the ones that pay for these mistakes and correct them.

Radha, as the only one of all the characters in the novels is a true representing of the modern Indian woman. In her study of the imaginary of Indian women in literature, Rajan states that "The image of the "new Indian woman" is of course derived primarily from the urban educated middle-class woman" (Rajan 130) and describes her as "attractive, educated, hardworking, and socially aware" (Rajan 131). In spite of her origin as a daughter of a middle class traditional family, while studying and in the years following her education, Radha became well aware of her possibilities.