Theme Of Quest For Liberty By Anita Desai

Kiran Desai is an Indian writer. In the age of fifteen years, she left India for England with her mother. Her mother’s name is Anita Desai, who is also a recognized writer. After a year they moved to the America, where Desai has lived till date. She is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the America. She is a part of the Indian diaspora. Kiran Desai’ first novel is Hullaballo in the Guava Orchard. In this novel, she is dexterously able to portray male psyche. She won Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss. This is her second novel. Desai is the youngest female to win the Booker prize.

Desai’s novel Where Shall We Go This Summer? an illustrious novel, deals with the story of an

Mrs. Dashwood is noticeably conflicted about leaving the family home, Norland. On one hand, “she was impatient to be gone,” even though “to remove far from that beloved spot was impossible” (Ch. 3 pg. 12). Clearly it is a struggle to relive the grief of losing her husband in the house where they spent their life together, but at the same time it is very difficult to leave the only house that her and her daughters have ever called home. This inner turmoil reveals that the sense of home can be both loved and hated. When it comes time for them to finally leave the house, “Many tears were shed by them in their last adieus to a place so much beloved.” (Ch. 5 pg. 25) The middle daughter, Marianne, says, “When shall I cease to regret you! —When learn to feel a home elsewhere!”

Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and short story writer. She is known for her sensitive portrayal of the inner feelings of her female characters. Many of her novels explore tensions between family members and the alienation of middle-class women. In her later novels, she wrote on varied themes such as German anti-Semitism, the demise of traditions, and Western stereotypical views of India.

His idealized expectations disillusioned him and thus left him feeling great loss. It wasn’t the fact that he couldn’t triumph in his quest to impress the girl who lives in his neighborhood that made him feel this way, however, it was the fact that he had invested so much expectation and hope into this one pursuit that it destroyed his ability to ever look back at things the same way, it destroyed the innocent lens he had. Reality is a hard road to take and once it sets in, it can’t be ignored. To go back to childish beliefs of adventure and magic is only teasing and a waste of time wrapping up in the unreal.

Inheritance of loss, is a moving novel by Indian writer Kiran Desai, whereby we see the effect of colonialism and post colonialism and the consequence that comes with it. Many critical themes are explored, Leach lists them as “colonialism, a revolution, multi-ethnic nationhood and illegal immigration in the US, where political allegiance impacts on love affairs, and where the reality of life in a grubby New York basement reshapes the American Dream” (2007). Desai mentions many of these historical events in her novel that give us and insight view as to what was happening in the inside, within the people of India, as opposed to only seeing the surface and elections going on.

Kandasamy’s poems portray such a dreadful picture of varied agonies experienced by Dalits that her poems seem as an encyclopaedia of painfulinventories. Untouchable turns into touchable for upper caste when it fits their selfish deeds andlusty demands. As in the poem entitled “Narration” the lady narrates

In beautifully detailed prose Desai draws the foods and textures of an Indian small town and of an American suburb. In both, she suggests, family life is a complex mixture of generosity and meanness, license and restriction: The novel's subtle revelation is in the unlikely similarities. In one dark moment, Arun recognizes in the Pattons' bulimic daughter a version of his own unhappy sister Uma, and the shock provokes a reflection on these two frustrated women: "But what is plenty? What is not? Can one tell the difference?" Desai's novel is a moving, eloquent exploration of that

Rudali is set against the exploitative system where poor people have o escape from their sufffeings. Rudali is about… “how to survive”… “bread and mouth”. It is a story about the problem of survival in a rigid patriarchal system-Mahasweta Devi exposes this curel and indifferent system. The novella explicates the various strategies of survival employed by the subaltern individually and as a community. Even the opening lines of Rudali place the main protagonist Sanichari in a socio-economic context and shows her way to her. She has been a victim of dichotomy where woman is worshipped as a goddess and whipped as a slave. She is a professional mourner and gradually she earns to employ the system against her masters who have so far exploited her. The story revolves around the life of a poor lowcaste village woman who is twice-marginalised. She is woman as well as

Desai very carefully handles the themes of racial discrimination, migration ,political turmoil and class discrimination. The novel provides us with some of the historical facts and the beautiful imagery which makes us familiar with the geographical details of Nepal. We can easily draw similarities between the novel and a movie. Just like a movie the novel deals with many characters and there is a change in scenes within a chapter. It keeps moving back and forth in time which makes it more interesting. The narrative techniques used by the author enhances the whole reading experience. The novel traces the development of the characters and ends the story in positive

Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss is deliberately hallmarked by its abundance of juxtapositions within the text. Sai and Gyan, the atmospheres of Kalimpong and the Gorkha National Liberation Front Movement, as well as the colonial and postcolonial world are placed side by side to evoke deep contrasts. The protagonist, Sai Mistry, undergoes a personal development process that is the product of her life circumstances, her interactions with Gyan, as well as her experience living amidst the Gorkha National Liberation Movement. On one hand, Sai’s experience growing up in a sheltered environment adds innocence to her personality. On the other hand, her experience as an orphan and the influence of the Judge-- a bitter retiree who believes

For the protagonist, Sampath, struggle arises from his reluctance to accept his social expectations. “ He thought of public transport, of the Bureau of Statistics…of never ever being left alone…I want my freedom” . Sampath also defies his gender role through his misadventure at the wedding where, “he attached a noise ring decorated like a chandelier with glassy, glinting drops. He wondered if he could be considered beautiful” . Desai’s extensive satire of the patriarchal Indian society

Indian novelist and short story writer, Anita Desai is specially noted for her insightful depiction of the inner life of the female characters in her writings. In most of her novels Anita Desai dwells on the themes incongruity, incertitude and hazards of human relationship particularly the man-woman relationship. D.H. Lawrence points out:

Anita Desai is one of India 's foremost writers. She is an Indian novelist, short-story writer and children 's author. Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award and Guardian Children 's Fiction Prize, Desai has authored as many as sixteen works of fiction, some of the best ones being 'Fasting, Feasting ', 'The Village By The Sea ', 'In Custody ', and 'Clear Light of Day '. Her distinct style of writing, her original characters and her realistic subject-line is what made her writings so endearing. Over the years, Desai won many awards and recognition for her work and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice. Apart from writing, Anita has been actively involved in teaching as well. She continues to be an inspiration for many young aspiring writers today.

She finds totally alone and helpless in her husband 's house. Anita Desai 's language is marked by three characteristics of sensuous richness, high sensitiveness and love for the sound words. She is chiefly interested in the emotional world of woman, and her fiction reflects a rare imaginative awareness of the various forces in operation and a genuine understanding of feminine sensibility as well as psychology. Her central characters are sensitive and respond faithfully to the needs of the self.