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SOCIAL PREDICAMENTS IN KAMALA MARKANDAYA'S "NECTAR IN A SIEVE"
Article Name
SOCIAL PREDICAMENTS IN KAMALA MARKANDAYA'S "NECTAR IN A SIEVE"
Volume & Issue
Volume 1 - 2021 / Issue 1 - August
Authors
P.JERIN VINOLIA
Keywords
spawned
Abstract
This Novel "Nectar in a sieve" deliver the eternal message of truth and sufferings of villagers and workers of the ancient India. Poverty is one of the main of this novel. The novel reveals impact of Modernism on rural Land is one of the suffering s of rural people. This impact becomes the cause of their despair. Rukmani and Nathan is the example of the rural dwellers. The flow of life in an Indian village has been realistically discussed with sympathy and skill. Thus the image of rural life is comprehensive and very outstanding. Indian peasants face heart-rending suffering because of natural Phenomena. Indian peasants are basically poor therefore they often faces starvation whenever they does not get harvest in a proper manner. These sufferings are caused not only by the natural happenings but also by the general people as we observe in the case of Nathan who has to face the ill-treatment of the upper class. This novel gives Indian experience of tragic heights of stress , but through the commoner dilemmas of ordinary people like Rukmani in "Nectar in a sieve" torn between traditional values and those spawned by modernism.