LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:9 September 2017
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An Approach to Parochial Customs in Nayantara Sahgal’s
Storm in Chandigarh

S. Prabhakaran
R. Lakshmi, Ph.D. Research Guide


Abstract

Nayantara Sahgal is a post-colonial Indian writer who writes in English. Her fiction deals with India’s elite responding to the crises engendered by political changes. Her themes primarily deal with social and political ideas. However, her characters are very much involved in political philosophy which shows narrow mindedness of principal characters like politician and also her characters deal social concern like businessman. Her novel presents the power hungry politician and his pragmatism and nation conscious politician and his idealism.

Keywords: Nayantara Sahgal, Storm in Chandigarh, Narrow mindedness, Narcissistic, power, violence and panic.

Nayantara Sahgal

Nayantara Sahgal is an important Indo-English woman novelist and an active political columnist. She has written on the controversies in politics and her writings are published in the western liberal journals. Her theme is indeed a post-independence sensibility. She does not admit and advocate any specific political ideology nor does she propagate any definite political values. Her novels portray the contemporary political realities and focus on the gloomy mood and widespread adversity of the post-independence generation. Her novels are well endowed with greater artistic objectivity. Her major characters have been deeply involved in the vortex of politics. Hence politics can be called her “primordial predilection”, the central point, in whatever she writes. Against this backdrop, she analyses and interprets various political events with an intelligent and perspective mind and read the individual responses of the characters to these events with the unusual sensitivity of a mature artist.

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R. Lakshmi, Ph.D. Research Guide

Department of English
Vel Tech
Dr. RR & Dr. SR University
Avadi – 60062
Tamil Nadu, India

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