Kamala Markandaya

Everyone faces hardships differently, and with every hardship, individuals have the verdict of whether to persevere or surrender. In the novel Nectar in a Sieve, the author Kamala Markandaya explores themes of optimism and how it weaves its way into the hardships of Rukmani’s and Nathan’s lives. Throughout the novel, the family faced many challenges. These challenges were indeed difficult at times, but certainly not impossible to deal with when one is in an optimistic state of mind. Though…

existence, but denial of existence. Kamala Markandaya has delineated this facet of cultural interaction in the novels particularly ‘’Possession.’’ ‘’India and England did never understand each other’’. East -West confrontation as represented by India`s contact with Britain figures prominently in Kamala…

In Nectar in a Sieve, written by Kamala Markandaya, the main character Rukmani suffers a great deal starting from her childhood throughout her adult life. Throughout dealing with hunger, vicious weather, change, and tremendous amounts of deaths, Rukmani transforms into an extremely strong woman. Life of Pi, told by Yann Martel, the main character by the name of Pi, who faces with the denial of the destruction of all he has known. In his journey across the ocean he experiences many challenges…

over the developing nation which does not enhance the country itself. This course is a direct reflection upon Kamala Markandaya’s novel Nectar in a Sieve in which Rukmani and her family grow into various hardships and complications as the construction…

‘Pati-Parmeshwar’. (Arora 35) For years this has been the practice in this male chauvinistic Indian family, where transgression is measured a sin. Women writers started to contest these communal suppressions in excess of the years with massive determination. Markandaya derives…

Role of a woman in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve J.RANJITH KUMAR Assistant Professor Department of English Priyadarshini Engineering College Vaniyambadi, Vellore. Dt. E-mail: rnkumarenglish@gmail.com Abstract This paper highlights the Role of a woman in Indian context in the Hindu family circles. A girl after her maturity is getting married and goes to live with her husband. She is beard children; remain in the kitchen, and implicitly obey her partner. Kamala Markandaya works on the…

"You chatter like a pair of monkeys," said Kali’s husband, "with less sense. What use to talk of ‘exchange’ and so forth? Their life is theirs and yours is yours; neither change nor exchange is possible (Markandaya, ????)." My experience with losing hope is similar to this in the fact that I was comparing my skills against someone else’s. This comparison cost me my desire to play the sport of basketball and ultimately took a toll on the joy in my life. Instead…

I’ve been planted in a pot My roots are welded to the soil My buds are blossoming But I am fed fertilizer named Hindering Eventually these petals will be a memory My existence dust (A Marginalized Rose) These words by Francisco DH in his poem ‘A Marginalized Rose’ illuminates the mental and emotional condition of the marginalized groups and draws a picture upon the cruel social system, that disconnect a particular group from the mainstream culture and hinder their growth. Marginalization is the…

Dominance over Social Progress Imperialism; the largest genocide that we never talk about. Imperialism is a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. Kamala Markandaya wrote the book Nectar in a Sieve. Nectar in a Sieve is about an Indian peasant woman, Rukmani, whose life is shook by the sudden presence of imperialism. The experiences that Rukmani goes through is reflected by the haunting imperialist history in the Congo as well as the British…

Rukmani and the Concept of Change Everyone has experienced change and each person has reacted differently, either adapting and accepting change or trying to fend it off. In the novel, Nectar in a Sieve (Kamala Markandaya) the protagonist Rukmani has her run-ins with change and more often than not she braces change. This constant force is always present throughout Rukmani’s life whether it is massive or not. Rukmani has grown and adapted with change for she knows from Nathan’s phrase, “bend like…