Kamala Markandaya

Rukmani’s true self In the novel Nectar In a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya tells the life story of a strong woman named Rukumani. Throughout her life she faces many unfortunate events. In the novel Rukmani shows that she is a strong woman, by being considerate towards others, not being afraid to express her beliefs and showing her angry side, proving that she is not always perfect when dealing with problems. Rukmani is considerate of others, Ruku tried not to hurt her husband’s…

Examining the roles of women: India and China Imagine a woman holding her deceased child in arm, a woman selling her body to make ends meet, or a woman who has little say so in anything she does. The women to whom this description applies come from India and China. In both societies women are seen as weak and of low importance. The woman of subject go through events which reveal their worth and meaning. The Women of China and India have roles in regard to parenting, marriage, and work that…

The Wrath of Imperialism “To think that imperialism is not a beast is to think that we are not animals.”-Karl Liebknecht. In the book Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya, an Indian woman named Rukmani tells the story of her life during a period of imperialism. Throughout the story, she suffers immense misfortune including loss of her land, a son, and traditional values. Many sufferings are caused by imperialism, as the British imperialize her village by building a tannery nearby her home.…

psychological perspective. Anita Desai is in many ways a representatives of Indian woman novelist in English. Her contribution to fiction in independent India is more significant than the other women novelists such as Ruth Prawer, Nayantara Saghal or Kamala Markandaya. She as a woman writer has a belief and concern more with thought, emotion, and sensation than with the action, experience and achievement. She is not only attended to the problems of women in the Indian society but was keen…

1984 and Nectar in a Sieve may be written by two different authors: George Orwell and Kamala Markandaya but they share the same message: Women’s place in a male-oriented society. Both authors show similar scenarios of women living, with a few differences here and there. Women are considered to be a weaker sex. As far as the women are concerned in these novels, they are made to follow the men. The women depicted in the two universes relate so much to the women in 2017. They, from the start, are…

Among the prolific women novelists in English in India, like Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal,Anita Desai,Shashi Deshpande,Jumpa Lahiri, Manju Kapur is a distinguished novelist, who deals with women and their problems and love ,marriage and sex in all her novels. Manju Kapur a well known name in modern Anglo-Indian literature is widely known as the Jane Austen of India. Her novels deal with everything that is related to the modern family and the patriarchal society. Her novels present the…

The research paper aims to explore the elements of feminism in Anita Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting. The paper seeks to study the work of Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting as a text of feminine writing and deals with number of problems that are faced by the women characters in the novel Lessons in Forgetting such as female feticide, gender discriminations, love and dependence on family members, and explains briefly how they overcome such problems to move on in their lives. As per the title, the…

Bhabani Bhattacharya was born in the same decade of the 20th century in which famous Indian Novelists Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan and Raja Rao were born. He is strongly called as one of the four wheels of the Indian English novelist. The other three are Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao. Bhabani Bhattacharya is one of the most famous amid the older generation of Indian English novelists. He was born on the 10th of November, 1906 in Bhagalpur (Bihar). Bhabani Bhattacharya belonged to…

Like Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya(Suraiya), Shashi Deshpande, Nayantara Sahgal, Ruth Prawar Jhabwalla and Githa Hariharan Mukherjee exposes many facets of feminism, encompassing agitation for equal opportunity, sexual autonomy and right to self determination. We find the same in the novel Desirable Daughters where the heroine Tara ventures to widen her horizons in matters of marriage, love and sex; redefines her roles as wife and mother. Social identities are far from getting fixed in some…

CHAPTER -1 INTRODUCTION Diaspora basically refers to the people who move from their original homeland to the foreign land. this movement to the alien land leads to many problems for the diasporic people like they suffer from identity crisis whose outcome is alienation. The Diaspora began with the 6th century BCE conquest of the ancient Kingdom of Judah by Babylon, the destruction of the First Temple (c. 586 BCE), and the expulsion of the…