Nayantara Sahgal

the individual in quest of self fulfillment. They are orthodox society, conventional morality, fears and superstitions, prejudices and the privileges of the privileged ones and inequality before law and so on. Most individuals in the novels of Nayantara Sahgal suffer because of social prejudices, prejudicial conventions, superstitions and baseless fears. Mira in This Time of Morning cannot understand why her daughter should even think of divorce. Because of her orthodox attitudes she makes herself

women novelists have arrived on the literary scene, they have set out making new forays in to the world of women. Nayantara Sahgal being a feminist writer has emphasized in her novels on freedom and a new definition of the New Women. Sahgal’s heroines are well aware of the injustice done to them in their marriage and they come out of this traditional bond. Nayantara Saghal Nayantara Saghal is a prolific writer. She has to

TRADITION AND MODERNITY Abstract Nayantara Sahgal a prominent Indian English women novelist. Her novels depict on the premise of multicolored female characters, marital tension and domestic traumas understands the tradition and modernity. Sahgal entre fictional corpus revolves around the twin themes on political and the tradition and modernity. Nayantara Sahgal’s fourth novel “The Day in Shadow (1971)” presents the theme on freedom for women to become aware of themselves as individuals along with

Sahgal aptly suggests her faith and hope through the symbolic limbless beggar. The beggar, who looks “a great bone arch,” “more insect than animal”, “a monster ant” with “eyes glaring with intelligence” (13) is the reality many shudder to face. He is the living evidence of man’s inhumanity to man – as he asserts his rights, his hands are chopped off by his land-lord and he gets no redress from the political leaders who are all “land-lords at heart.” The mutilation does not intimidate his spirit and

unhappiness. Simrit experiences in the hands of cruel and unjust male dominated society of India. The novel exposes the life of the political leaders, business barons, journalists, and free thinkers in the bee and flow of the daily living in New Delhi. Nayantara Sahgal’s had presented the social life of these people living in India in the early sixties when India was on her way to progress after the attainment of independence. The novelist shows that though Indians had got freedom yet it was only on the

elements in her novels. For a question, she asserts that ‘all art is autobiographical’ (Women’s Space The Mosaic World Of Margaret Drabble AndNayantaraSahgal, 27).Her work ranges from factual and emotional autobiography to fictionalized autobiography. Nayantara believes that it is not a serious moral offence in a woman to break away from the ‘sacred’ marriage bond, if she finds the shackles too oppressive to the growth of her

FAITH – A WAY OF LIFE IN KAMALA MARKANDAYA’S A SILENCE OF DESIRE Mrs. P. Jagadeeswari1 and Mr. N. Arunagiri2 1Research Scholar, ERK College of Arts and Science, Erumiyampatti,Dharmapuri (T.N) jagasubhasri@gmail.com 2Assistant Professor, ERK College of Arts and Science, Erumiyampatti Dharmapuri (T.N) arunsrithu@gmail.com ABSTRACT Kamala Markandaya as an Indo-Anglican woman novelist, who presented the belief of faith especially about Tulasi plant in the novel of A Silence of Desire in 1960. A Silence

Literature is a term used to describe written and sometimes spoken material, writing that possesses literary merit and Language that foregrounds Literariness, as opposed to ordinary. The term derived from Latin Literatura meaning writing formed with letters, although contemporary definitions include texts that are spoken or sung. Literature can be classified according to whether it is fiction or non-fiction and whether it is poetry or prose. It can be further distinguished according to major forms

Arun Joshi (1939-93), novelist of the post-independence India, has been classed with Indian English fiction writer such as Nayantara Sahgal and Anita Desai. His novels reflect the dilemma of human loneliness which has various manifestations in the form of powerlessness, meaninglessness, cultural estrangement, social isolation and self-estrangement. The Strange Case of Billy Biswas, a well-known novel, shows the dissatisfaction of modern man from the civilized, cultured and sophisticated society.

INTRODUCTION We record our homage and deep admiration for the Womanhood of India who in the hour of peril for the motherland forsook the shelter of their homes and with unfailing courage and endurance stood shoulder to shoulder with their menfolk, in the frontline of India’s national army to share with them the sacrifices and triumphs of the struggle”. From a Resolution passed on January 26, 1931. When the history of India's fight for Independence comes to be written, the sacrifice made by the