A themetic study of kamala markandaya's a handful of rice Dr Kumari Reman* *Email id: jaibir_kuk@rediffmail.com
Online published on 4 March, 2019. Abstract The aim of this paper is to describe the problems of hunger and poverty, corruption, degradation, humiliation, torture, unemployment through the life of Ravi, the protagonist in A Handful of Rice(1966), written by Kamala Markandaya. This is a realistic novel of Indian society. Kamala Markandaya has tried to reflect many issues in this novel. The Themes conveyed in this novel are not stereotype, they are original. Ravi, the protagonist, is caught in the whirlpool of transformation from traditional society to modern society, where he suffers from beginning to end for survival. The main purpose of the paper is to show the image of modern India under the impact of various changes as political, social, intellectual and cultural. I wish to present the devastating effects of these changes on the life of common man. The novel reveals Markandaya's deep preoccupation with changing Indian social values. Top Keywords Degradation, Torture, Humiliation, Preoccupation, Intellectual, Survival. Transformation. Top |