Mulk Raj Anand

The theme is a phenomenon that transpires from the concealed idealogies which the writer provides. In a broad sense, a theme “may simply be a characteristic view of life that pervades a story”. (Lynn and Lewis : 78). Harry Shaw maintains that the theme tells “Some truth about life or human behaviour”. (Shaw : 13). These concepts of theme in short fiction try to depict that short story, like any other fictional forms, reveals the values of a writer and his phyche of the human condition. Thus, theme

Short story is a favourite form in literature in this modern age. It is a story which can be easily read in a sitting and which a type is of prose fiction or short fiction. It has separated norms for itself. It will give pleasure to the reader. According to Edgar Allan Poe, “Short story is a prose narrative requiring form half an hour to one or two hours in its personal.” (Vasans 68) Short story separated form literary form of literature which is distinguished from other forms of literature. Short

The novel is essentially a social form. It explores the condition of the human beings through the mental struggle and body language, quite before they get into action. It is like focusing on the stalking of the lion rather than pouncing upon the prey.4 (Singh: 2004, 2) Bhagat strives to describe the mental stirrings of his human resources. His characters read the words and foresee the action. Therefore, novel is a wide-ranging literary form. It is a derivative of the Italian word ‘novella’, which

IMPACT OF VICTORIAN ERA ON INDIA: LITERATURE AND LANGUAGES; STREAMLINING ENGLISH MEDIUM EDUCATION The British Rule lasted for about 200 years in India (1763-1947). Early on, it started with the East India Company invading and conquering India and eventually there was a colonial shift of power, from the East India Company to the Crown, which was under the reign of Queen Victoria. She was an important proponent in transferring control of India from the East India Company to the British Government

In a similar vein, where racism in “The Untouchable” by Mulk Raj Anand is more caste based, as it is found in India. Similarly, the theme finds an expression in ‘The kite runner’ by Khaled Hosseini, where it has been examined from various angles, religious intolerance, class, economic conditions etc. In ‘The Bluest

Study of Dalit Literature of subalternity through an upsurge of new social class and consciousness among the Depressed section Dr. Pravat Ranjan Sethi pravatjnu@gmail.com Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. - B.R. Ambedkar Abstract Dalit is a category of self-definition of Untouchables

Among the Indian English writers who qualify as existentialist, Arun Joshi is the first and finest one. His novels are strongly influenced by the existential philosophy of Satare, Albert Camus' and Kierkegaard. His journey of fictional works from the Foreigner (1968) to The City and The River (1990) is characterised by themes of frustration, disintegration, rootlessness, a sense of alienation and existential predicament. The present paper examines how Joshi, in his last novel, The City and The River

Bhabani Bhattacharya is a great novelist among the old masters, who wrote their works which show their great creative power. Though he has not been put in the group of the ‘Big Three’- Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao and R.K. Narayan but he is unquestionably one of the celebrated Indo-English fiction writers. Some critics rightly regarded him as one of the four wheels of the Indian English novel. His fictional output, spreading over a period of about thirty years, consists of six novels and one collection

novel in English became recognized as an effective vehicle of human relationships in Indian society. Novelists since the formative years of this genre have been exploring through it, human relationships in the complex Indian society. R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Anita Desai, Shashi Despande, Arundhti Roy, Kiran Desai, Jumpha Lahiri, Geeta Mehta, and Githa Hariharan etc., have produced social novels which deal with the theory of human relationships in the traditional and

R.K.Narayan, full name Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanswami,born in October 1906. He was an Indian essayist known for his works set in the anecdotal South Indian town of Malgudi. Apart from Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao, Narayan was likewise a main writer of Indian Literature in English. Narayan is not only the most popular and prolific novelist but a short story writer too. He approaches to the Indian scene with no serious angle of study. Like other major short story writers, Narayan also comes