Mulk Raj Anand

Steinbeck and Anand are bestowed with enthralling intellectual framework to take up the crucial issues of have-nots in their novels. Leaving some minor differences both of them share phenomenally similar outlook for the have-nots. Their common concerns make them the champions of the underdogs. They are the great realists. Both equally understand the call of society. They give their firm voice to the unheard and unheeded have-nots. They hold a concrete conviction that "a writer’s responsibility to

This written task is based on a part 4 text by Mulk Raj Anand “Untouchable.” It is set in colonial India. Several global issues are presented, particularly human exploitation, poverty, humiliation, oppressions and religious hypocrisy. Mulk Raj Anand focuses on the social injustices faced by the poor people such as Bakha, the protagonist, son of Lakha, who is the “jemadar” of all sweepers in the town. Bakha is an “untouchable” representing all downtrodden. His plight as an untouchable captivated

Similarly, like another famous Indian writer, Mulk Raj Anand penned down masterpiece called Untouchable which was published in 1935, in which he dealt with different types of exploitations like economic, political, social religious and sexual. But social exploitation is mother who gives birth to all other types of exploitations. The caste discrimination out of this social evil gives undue advantages to upper castes by birth. In his novel, Mulk Raj Anand throws light on the plight of downtrodden

The journey to Assam was descripted in the most picturesque manner. The beautiful details of landscape, the rustic beauty of plantation, the greenery and fresh air were breath taking. It was like watching a dream land. The morning mist has risen over the valley and evaporated with the dazzling burst of sunlight. The air was still under the clear even sky. The welter of leafage was tensed beneath the world’s hollow cup. There was a concentrated lull in the slow heart of the day, as if India missed

Despite having drastically different perspectives, E.M. Forster and Mulk Raj Anand display a common disdain for British imperialism and racism while sharing in a struggle to fully capture the complexities of the British Raj while still spreading their intended message in their novels, A Passage to India and Untouchable. Untouchable and A Passage to India were not written solely for entertainment. The authors’ shared purpose for writing the stories is more important than the stories themselves

To put on their clothes made one a sahib too: Mimicry and the Carnivalesque in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable The character of Bakha, in Anand’s Untouchable, is drawn from the lowest caste in Indian society, that of sweeper, or cleaner of human ordure. Despite his unpromising station in life, the central figure in the novel operates at a variety of levels in order to critique the status quo of caste in India. Well aware of his position at the nadir of Indian society, Bakha is able-via his untouchability-to

INTRODUCTION Kamala Markandaya possesses a conspicuous place among Indian-English writers. Markandayawa s born in 1924 and raised in Madras, Markandaya happens to an educated Brahmin family. She was educated at Madras University. Kamala Markandaya has composed eleven novels in 23 years, The first nectar in a sieve, published in 1954, the last one to date The Golden Honeycomb in 1977. She is not just the earliest Indian author of noteworthiness. She is a standout amongst the most recognized composers

In Across the Black Waters, Mulk Raj Anand clearly creates the character Lal Singh as a true to life character who depicts most of the soldiers who are originally farmers. The setting of the novel is during the period of the Gandhian movement which had started to gain momentum and the nationalist fervor in the country was high with sporadic nonviolent movements taking place to oust the British from the country. The Gandhi movement at this time gained importance in the novel and in the era because

modernism. Anand was a socially commited novelist, through his novels he has very strongly made Indians try to understand those traditional vices which are biggest hurdles of India becoming modern. Layers of oppressions, humiliation and economic disparity burdened Indian society so much that British colonialism seemed to be lesser factor in India’s progress rather than own Indian internal colonialism. From his works he has always tried to educate Indians to forcing their consciousness to think

lived for a while near a plantation in Assam and visited Ceylon. And saw the inhumanity and barbarism prevalent there, with the consequent dehumanization of the colonials involved in the process" (Anand, Mulk, Raj. www.lanuageinindia.com/aug2014/ sulochanatwoleavesfinal.Web.13 Nov 2014). The novel opens with Gangu's arrival at the tea-estate with a thought in his mind that 'life is the journey'. However, for Gangu 'the journey' is not a bed of roses. It is a have-not’s journey of life bond to many