Analysis Of Storm In Chandigah By Nayantara Sahgal

Though Nayantara Sahgal seldom goes to the extreme, she is in favour of the woman’s right to her separate identity, to err own perceptions of life and pursuit of her own interests and aspirations. She is also in favour of her freedom of choice She expresses her views in so many words in her non-fictional writings and through her central characters in the novels. She is in full sympathy with women like Rashmi in This Time of Morning who I pursuit of their emotional fulfillment break out of tame domesticity. Saroj in Storm in Chandigarh is a woman who is denied equality of status with her husband. At first she is at her wit’s end and does not know what to do but with the help of Vishal Dubey she is able to come out of the cocoon society has woven …show more content…
This applies to both men and women but more to women than to men, Nayantara Sahgal thinks that we are more inclined towards illusion than towards reality because of our cultural and religious background We believe that the world is maya, unreal Philosophyically Maya is that which measures out the immeasurable, that which limits the limitless and that which distorts the one into many. According to advait of Shankaracharya ma a false and not (unreal). According to popular conception maya is unreal whereas it is illusion. Now it is this conception which makes Indians negligent of this world and its reality. Shaila in The Day in Shadow is a typical Indian woman who can consider the fact of her love for Raj an illusion, an unreal thing.
She had disowned him utterly. And not satisfied with the she had gone on retracting little by little all she had felt for him until one day not long after it was over she actually believed she had never loved him. the whole tiling had never happened. It had been an illusion. But then so was the whole turmultous, actual world according to the Hindu. Even your hand was not your hand, your pain was not your pain in that indisputable, flawless, monstrous logic …show more content…
If one cannot face reality about the world, how one can face reality about himself. Most women characters in the fictional world of Nayantara Sahgal as in the real world outside, are unwilling to come face to face with reality. Leela in Storm in Chandigarh. Nishi in Rich Like Us, Mira in This Time of Morning and Prabha in A Time To Be Happy are some of such women. They accept the age old ties of customs, traditions, false prestige, conventional morality and keep on suffering thanking that it is their fate to suffer. Sometimes even women like Simrit cherish some illusion or the other. Raj thinks of our belief in God and everything turning out right in the