Hullabaloo In The Guava Orchard Analysis

As a post modern novelist Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard depicts a biting satire of the nutty situations of human nature in various aspects of Indian society by the interplay of fantasy and reality. Unlike Rushdie’s ‘imaginary homelands’ Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard suggests the vulnerability of natural havens and of any attempt at retreating from society and aims to examine “the difference between what things are and what they ought to be”(Pollard,3). She portrays a kaleidoscopic picture of Indian culture, tradition and ethos by a simple form of narrative; the story is told by a third-person narrator. The vivid description of everyday, Shahkot echoes R.K.Narrayan’s Malgudi in its evocation of small- town of India.

What would be the consequences come out in the society by this kind of search? Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard depicts the vulnerability of natural haven and of any attempt at receding from society. There is no escape from society and history, the novel suggest in the ironic and humorous way. Desai satires the bureaucratic system through the back drop off driving off the monkeys, there is no coordination, among the government agencies while devising the strategy, therefore, novel reveals the paralyzed picture of government agencies. Desai raised her voice on serious issues for undermining the value ethos of contemporary society at every level, like entrepreneurialism, the credulous creation of gurus and the parochial aspects of Indian culture. Her novel is serious effort to serve a kind of barometers of human responses to social forces. Kiran Desai paints the graphic picture of Indian society and its major problems like- class distinction, cultural differences, loss of Identity especially female identity, the role of woman in Indian society, insurgency, superstitious etc. with a keen sense of humour. It is marvelous satire on the Indian