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Analysis Of Anita Nair's 'Lessons In Forgetting'

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Anita Nair is a popular Indian English writer. She is considered as a bold and straight forward writer. Her novels depict the real life of her characters without hiding anything from her readers. The other point that her novels reveal is the effect of social conditioning on women. Society uses many different means to propagate beliefs. We have literature as one of the means to carry these ideas further surrounded by such massages. The girls are reared in a conventional way which teaches them to self -evident truths or wisdom. This is the process of conditioning. Anita Nair has very beautifully, portrayed this concept in her novels. On reading post- modernism English novels in Indian literature one can get shocked by the way Anita Nair would …show more content…

In her novels, she depicts all kinds of characters and explains how the society is holding people with various mind set. Her concentration is exclusively on the women’s feeling and thoughts, and their search for self-identity. Anita’s major themes are of human relationships, particularly that of man and woman, their loneliness and lack of communication. Nair’s “Lessons in Forgetting” aims to bring out the realities faced by women in the society and the redemption to tune women for better …show more content…

A critical reading of this book reveals feminist ideologies in the society in general. It condemns the patriarchy system in the male dominated world and they speak for women’s rights. A voyage of rediscovery for Akhila which explores the female phase. Akhila 's family members conveniently looked at her as a man in lady 's attire as it suited their needs to have a money making machine with absolutely no encumbrances. Sad that even a mother fails to take note of the fact that her eldest daughter who had sacrificed for the welfare of her siblings needed to have a life of her own. In Akhila 's home her brother who grows up comfortably with her hard earned money and steps unhesitatingly on to the threshold of matrimony, surprisingly, does not even think he has a duty to help her settle down with a family of her own. The psyche of women of different strata caught in their existential struggle for life has been a fertile ground for Indian women novelists. Anita Nair also belongs to this category of novelists who have focused on the marginalization of women in Indian society. Her marvelous understanding of the minds of women is depicted beautifully in her novel Ladies Coupe which captures women 's overwhelming problems and challenges. She emphatically puts

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