Morarji Desai

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

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. This paper attempts to examine the fictional projections

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. Anita Desai uses words for their own sake

TITLE : The Inheritance Of Loss AUTHOR : Kiran Desai PUBLISHER : Penguin Books India YEAR OF PUBLICATION : 2006 Kiran Desai is an Indian author. She was born in India in 1971. At the age of fourteen she moved to England. Her novel ‘ The Inheritance Of Loss’ won the Man booker Prize for the year 2006 and the National Book Critics Circle fiction award. Desai is the youngest female to win the Booker prize. She is a part of Indan Diaspora. As a south Asian diapora writer she gives voice to people who

Women’s Language: A history of Indian-English Women Writers. “Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. Indeed if woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some would say greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out, she was locked

Abstract: Unlike other women novelists, Anita Desai concentrates on the exploration of sensibility, that too feminine sensibility by probing deep into the inner life of a woman. Desai reigns supreme in her fictional world by focusing attention towards “the quest inward” and concentrating on the still grimmer and more harrowing presentation of Indian life. In fact all her characters are sensitive, solitary and hyper- introspective. Her fiction balances itself delicately on the fringes between things

down emotionally and isolate herself from her daily activities as a homemaker. She takes an illusion as protective umbrella and as the only alternative force to hide her incapacity to adjust herself to the existed norms of society that she belongs. Desai here embodies the common yearning of womanhood for an individual identity and a passionate longing for the fullest life. Sita’s frustration drives her to the island, Manori, a corruption free world, void of mere appetite and sex, where she hopes to

responsibilities they may not be psychologically ready for? What all problems are caused if children take up the roles of caregivers in their families? Anita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist. She was born on June 24 1937. She is also known as Anita Mazumdar. She married Ashvin Desai in 1958 and has a daughter named Kiran Desai who has written the novel “The Inheritance of Loss”. Harsh conditions may force children into roles and responsibilities of being a parent to younger children in the family

Department of English Acharya Nagarjuna University Guntur swathitvn@gmail.com Winner of the Booker prize 2006, Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971. Daughter of an eminent Indian English author Anita Desai, she has carved out a name for herself as a novelist by writing just two novels, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is in the form of a fable and told

Loss is Strong but Memories are Powerful. In the novel The Book of Negroes written by Lawrence Hill loneliness and love plays an important role in the character development of Aminata Diallo who is the main character of this novel. This novel emphasizes the loss of the people Aminata loves most and how she works through the losses of her loved ones with the memories of these people to help her cope with the losses. Loss is a powerful thing that everyone faces at least once in their lifetime.