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A Bend In The Ganges Analysis

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Iqbal, Hukum Chand and Meet Singh- none could stop, “a solid crust of human beings on the roof” (190; ch.4), although they have enormous power and influence to stop that. What they lack was a selfless spirit and a courageous mind of Jugga to identify himself with the fate of others. Love is a force that does not give place to any meanness of mind. Jugga’s love for all creatures makes him generous, tolerant and sympathetic towards others. He has also anger to defeat the evil to save the good.
God, according to the Indian philosophies and epics, comes down on this earth when it becomes full of sins. He takes the incarnation of human and fights against the evil. God lives within man. He acts through man. Juggat Singh is that man whom God has …show more content…

It is clear that the aim of the text is to show how violence of the partition affected ordinary human lives in a land which has a long tradition of non violence and where M. K. Gandhi unfolded the humanistic messages of brotherhood, non violence and peace for the whole world. The text is the testimony of how these long- nourished humanistic ideals of India were put to death and “what was achieved through non-violence, brought with it one of the bloodiest upheavals of history”(Author’s …show more content…

But he does not dwindle between the two and the novel does not pass any value judgement over this conflict. Instead, the miserable face of humanity slashed and slain in between these two ideologies is painted by the novelist with a universal touch. Gian and Devi, both study in a college, believed in two different world views- one, a devotee of non violence and another, a stong critic of it. Doubts and questions about the applicability of the principle of non-violence in practical world arose even in Gian’s mind in course of his long journey of life. Devi who starts his life as a staunch non believer of non violence and opts for extremism, becomes calm and ponderous about life after facing stormy waves in his life too. He ultimately finds his moorings in non violence. The author does not clear any side, rather wants to present the accurate state of confusion regarding the so called values and ideals in normal social life of the Indian People on the eve of the

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