Foreign travellers have remarked that there is no d ivorce between religion and daily life in India and it is quite easy to see the divine in everything. Mythology’s hold on popular imagination in India too is very st rong because it is a way of teaching illiterate Indians to respect the natural world. Bu t it is equally true that those who have kept this country and culture alive have not consid ered ritualistic religion as the foundation of life. Instead, there is a strong trad ition on Adhyatma – spiritual knowledge woven into a larger …show more content…
They lov e people and also fix the responsibility of people for particular deeds. Thes e stories are all about how human relations create a web of emotions.
All four fictions are like travelogues. Writers hav e tried to capture the feel of the culture and surrounding picturesquely. The rive rine cultures are accommodative.
People coming from different nationalities and trav elling for different personal reasons become one with the river and life around. Like the protagonist in Tatvamasi had come to India with the confidence on his traini ng of Human Resource
Management but he could not control his emotions or restrict himself from becoming affectionate towards poor tribal people whose lives and their peculiarities were so different from his own. He too, like them, started believing that the river removes fear and gives serenity.
The river is constantly present in the story but th e writers have put their protagonists on the river banks with a specific pur pose and search. Each novel is a tale of the search for the self through the means of jou rney. Entire journey is a