The Guide - R K Narayan Review

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

Indian literature written in English language has its base n the myth that has been passed on from generations. Like many Indian English writers writing in English Girish Karnad is of no exception. In his writings the mythological aspects echo throughout. His plays like ‘Hayavadana’, ‘The Fire and The Rplay hain’ and ‘Nagmandala’ are based on the myths but Karnad gives an approach to myth in a different way. His plays originate from the myths of Indian legends but in the course of the play hee insert some of the acts which make us rethink about depending on God, especially through the man-God encounter acts.

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.

The expected impact of the Gandhian movement on Indian English literature was the sudden blossoming of realistic novels during the 1930s. Novelists turned their attention away from the past to focus on contemporary issues. In their novels existing social and political problems that Indians found themselves in were given importance. The nation-wide movement of Gandhi not only stimulated Indian English novelists but also provided them with some of their high-flying themes, such as the struggle for freedom, the East-West encounter, the communal problem and the miserable condition of the marginalized, the landless poor, the downtrodden, the economically exploited and the

Mrs. Asrani, one of the important character in the book, says, "If we can't all live in harmony in this building, what hope is there for the nation?" Her mood changes often between embracing the unique individuals who share her living quarters and shunning them for insecure and picayune reasons. The author manages to give everybody good and bad days and thus offer this three-floored microcosm of urban India an emotional resonance that many readers will happily relate to ---especially those who lives in urban areas. The ailing drunk Vishnu becomes more and more decrepit, he wanders from floor to floor revisiting moments of his life through delirious remembrances of loves and horrors. Though the neighbours are not always interested in sharing his memories with him, he moves from landing to landing as if descending into a private hell, taking their abuse or kindness in whatever amount they wish to hand it

Main motive of Chand was to show what all was going on the society so that we could work upon the limitations and minimize them. These stories today also bring a sense of relief and understanding in readers mind because people haven’t changed at all. Years have passed; decades have passed but Premchand’s character still wander everywhere in our society. Premchand has given new heights and acknowledgement to Hindi literature. Many authors from Hindi literature are known worldwide but Prem Chand and his work is above all. In short, it is a compilation of some of his best stories; each one of them a sensitive portrayal of human values and sentiments, many of which are relevant even today. The main characteristic of Premchand's writings is his interesting storytelling and use of simple

The book I chose is called Louis Riel: a comic strip biography. It was written by Chester Brown. The book is by Louis Riel. I decided to read it because the cover looked really appealing to me, I really liked the color choice and the drawing style.

Indo-Australian writer , Aravind Adiga discusses the obstacles in India that result from poverty and corruption. Throughout the novel, Adiga castigates the hardship and anguish endured by the lower class while reflecting how a brave and remorseless Indian man, Balram battles through the corrupt system in India. Adiga demonstrates the adversity and struggles that are rooted from poverty and corruption. While Adiga spent his time in India, “loitering about train stations, or bus strands, or servants’ quarters and slums” he would listen to the people around him and realized that there were tons of unheard voices that filled the streets of India that echoed a “continuous murmur or growl beneath middle-class life” (Bookbrowse).

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

In fact, by attempting to glamourize suffering by portraying it superficially, writers may lose the connection with us that appreciates literature. Instead, what we are left with is an over extended attempt to glorify suffering, or hide it within a guise of reality that is too savage to be true. Instead of the appreciative feeling that reality imbues within me as a reader, I am left with a sense of disgust, confusion and dissatisfaction. This feeling almost overwhelmed me while reading Adiga’s “The White Tiger” and it tainted my experience with the book. Adiga had written the novel without any firsthand experience in the rural areas of India to which his main character referred to as the darkness. Instead, being of a higher class, his accounts were based on second or third hand experiences which do not adequately depict the lower class’ realities. I found the following depiction of India’s ghettos both farcically unrealistic and eventually

What Makes a Good Short Story and How Successful is R.K. Narayan in Portraying the Character of Swami in the Short Story ‘A Hero’?

There are many aspects of Indian life: the people, the technology, the culture. The list is forever evolving and increasing. In the stories “They Are Staring At Me” and “My Aunt Gold Teeth”, Vidia Naipaul introduces similar aspects of Indian life through first-person and third-person viewpoints while revolving around religious themes and ideas. In “They Are Staring At Me”, the reader is engaged by the viewpoint of the protagonist when he encounters a Sikh who displays immense amounts of anger and criticism towards Indians and other Sikhs. In “My Aunt Gold Teeth”, the reader experiences Gold Teeth's religious inspirations and conflicts through the viewpoint of her nephew. Considering these similarities, Naipaul contrasts the third-person viewpoint, the meaning of religion, and the characteristics of wealth between the stories to express different aspects of Indian life.

Indo-Anglian literature forms an integral part of English and it has attained a distinct place in the literary landscape in the literary landscape of India. It is a synthesis of two great literary traditions-Indian and Anglian. It is an offshoot of colonial rule and in more or less a synthesis of two great cultural traditions. For the past two decades it has grown from strength to strength and acquired a new change and life with the emergence of talented second generation of writers who are at home in English language more than the native speakers. Among the second generation of writers may be included Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Shashi Tharoor, Shashi

V.S. Naipaul is the second literary personality from Indian roots after Rabindranath Tagore to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001. Most of the works of Naipaul deal with the theme of isolation, frustration and negation in a colonized society which turns out to be cruel, villain and hostile to the expectations and aspirations of the protagonist. He also deals with the clash of culture between the old and the new in multi- racial society. Search for identity is the foundation upon which the works of Naipaul stand. Fiction is an instrument of analysis for Naipaul. Perhaps, this is the only reason why his literature revolves round the recurring themes of colonial phobia, individual’s search for identity and clash of culture. The identity of a