Aug 2026· International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research· 0 citations
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The aim is to study the sociocultural sufferings and the dilemma of Anita Nair's protagonists who find themselves tattered between social conventions and traditions and their inordinate urge to transgress these boundaries and fulfill their desires. In The Better Man (2000) Nair talks about quest for identity and self realization and portrays women’s aspiration for freedom in marital life through the characters of Paru Kutty ,Anjana and Valsala. Akhila the main protagonist in Ladies Coupe (2002) gives up the conflicts within her by realizing her potentiality and proceeds towards a contended life.Similarly,in Mistress (2003), Nair presents a perplexed married woman named Radha who oscillates between her traditional values and the transferring trends of the modern society.Meera in Lessons in Forgetting (2010) also struggles with the social pressure around her,being abandoned by her husband and by the society at large.The research attempts to bring out how women are subjugated by traditions in a patriarchal society and how they liberate themselves by challenging and transgressing the boundaries .
The research paper attempts to examine the search for meaningful life in the select novels of Anita Desai.Today's modern Indian woman seems to be in a similar situation as Desai has depicted in her novels. Desai's women show a heightened awareness of life in all its sordidness.A study of her novels reveals her persiste...
Shalini Sharma· International Journal For Mu...· 0 citations
Volker Schlöndorff’s film The Ninth Day (2004) presents for cultural remembrance a story loosely based on Father Jean Bernard’s short furlough from the Dachau concentration camp during the Second World War, as told in his memoir Priestblock 25487. The film functions as a distinctive site of memory that reveals the dema...
This research article analyzes the novel French Loverby Taslima Nasrin emphasizing the concepts of essence and existence to explore the instincts of the characters. The protagonist, Nilanjana Mandal navigates the journey of free will, emphasizing her‘self’ to live on her own as she is dominated as inferior.The paper si...
Ganga Ram Paudyal· JODEM: Journal of Language a...· 0 citations
This article explores the complex intersection of personal agency and the often-overlooked societal constraints that shape the lives of nuns and prostitutes. It draws on Vallachira Madhavan’s Achāmma as a central case study. Achāmma tells the story of a nun, Achāmma, who becomes a victim of sexual violence and other su...
This article draws on the life stories of divorcing or divorced women living in Istanbul. By attending to my interlocutors’ transformations over time, in relation to others and divine power, it examines the complex workings of destiny and the idea of imtihan (test from God) in the construction and moral revaluation...
