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extending from loss to poverty, gain, to wealth, justice to injustice. The Inheritance of Loss is a political and historical novel, but the truth is that in spite of its political and historical extents, it is a socio-cultural work of fiction. Desai pursues to redefine human culture, the elements of love

Anita Desai is recognized as the first Indian author writing in English who delineates feminist themes seriously, focusing on the conditions of women in India. The conflict of her characters is noted to be as one, between reason and instinct, the will and reality, involvement and detachment. She is deep rootedin her native culture that is evident from herthemes, style, landscape, images and of course, in her successful experimentation with English novel. Her novels raise many issues of universal

INTRODUCTION The present work aims to study the Marital Discord and the problems faced by the women in Indian society which undoubtedly, is marching ahead at the path of development but still assigns traditional roles to the women. Anita Desai has her own separate approach to female problems in Indian social life and life in general. She does not think that marriage is as farce as all human relationships are. Some of her heroines have the idea of a blissful, happy conjugal life, but on the whole

Anita Desai undoubtedly holds a prominent position among the Contemporary writers of Indo –Anglican fiction. She is a bold and experimental Novelist with a new sense and vibrant richness. Much attention is given to the emotional crisis of her protagonists who live in a chaotic society. She delves deep to find out the factors responsible for such a despair and attempts to suggest solutions to overcome it. From her novels, it is clear that she, possesses one of the healthiest and psychologically

Anita Desai’s novel Fasting, Feasting, is a two part novel set in the 20th century. The first part is situated in India, while the second is situated in Western Massachusetts, in the United States. Desai focuses very seriously on the theme of gender and social roles, particularly referring to female characters. The author reveals that America’s society, in those days, placed gender expectations to its members, especially regarding to female beauty. The written task intends to show how and why American

Abstract: Anita Desai is recognized as the first Indian author writing in English who delineates feminist themes seriously, focusing on the conditions of women in India. The conflict of her characters is noted to be as one, between reason and instinct, the will and reality, involvement and detachment. She is deep rooted in her native culture that is evident from her themes, style, landscape, images and of course, in her successful experimentation with English novel. Her novels raise many issues

disaster. Her extreme sensitivity is explained in terms of unfathomable loneliness. Maya cries for love and understanding in her loveless marriage with Gautama. Women writers of all ages have a natural preference for writing about women characters. Anita Desai is no exception in so far as she has written by women characters. Most of her novels move around women characters. She is preoccupied with the theme of incompatible marital couples. We come across different kinds of women characters in her novels.

Anita Desai presents to reader her opinion about complexity of human relationships as a big contemporary problem and human condition. At the level of inner consciousness words are not mere meanings recorded in a dictionary but are symbolic which trigger feelings and meanings that an individual draws out of one’s subconscious storehouse. Her women characters make a reader look at them with awe with their relationship to their surroundings, their society, their men, their children, their families,

Anita Desai is considered the writer who introduced the psychological novel in the tradition of Virginia Woolf. Desai's novels span an extensive range of issues. They map the evolution of a writer from obsession with the unrevealed inner-world of her female characters to themes of perennial interest to all. Her preoccupation with the female psyche provides way to issues of larger human interests demonstrating the authors own growth to maturity. Desai explores the state of nothingness in some of her

Abstract: The main objective of this study is to attempt an ecocritical analysis of Jawaharlal Nehru’s Glimpses of World History. Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) is one of the greatest statesmen and writers of the twentieth century. He has written a number of books of which Glimpses of World History is an outstanding contribution to Indian Literature in English. His letters to his daughter clearly reveal Nehru’s interest on ecocritical tropes and his ecological sensibility. As a lover of nature, he