Nayantara Shagal Analysis

Nayantara Shagal ’s innovative odyssey extents a period about three decades which observed the publication of five novels and two story-collections, besides other non fictional writings. Nayantara Shagal’s creative world is inhabited by people of various religious faiths, diverse ethnicities and different cultural predilections. An instinctive urge to grapple with cultural tension best defines her creative impulse remarkably manifested in all her fictional writings. With a view to making an in depth study, her career can be conveniently marked into many stages. Nayantara Shagal is one of the eminent women writers of Indian writing in English. She is an eminent journalist and has distinguished herself as a political columnist. In an interview with Rama Jha, Nayantara Shagal avows that fiction is her “abiding love” and journalism her “conscience” (1) but her fiction seldom becomes journalistic and journalism seldom becomes fictional. Both maintain a respectable distance from each other. However, journalism has significantly contributed to her fiction by providing her the political vision and understanding of the contemporary events so necessary for the …show more content…
In A Time To Be Happy Maya endeavours to flutter her wings for a flight of her own, though heavily pressed down by the taboos and conventions of orthodox Hindu society. She, of course, does not revolt against marriage but seeks fulfillment in the service of people. She is important because, as Sree Rashmi Talwar says, “she heralds the growth and powers the way for the Indian woman’s awareness of herself” (4). In this novel, the novelist also dwells on various sterile social conventions and role prescriptions for women in our culture. This Time of Morning brings out the woman who savours the act of living. Rashmi tells