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Analysis Of Chatterjee's Essay 'Rambling At Fifty'

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Besides drawing from personal experiences, Chatterjee writes about issues that alarm him and feels that they should be brought out in open and addressed. The sensitive and thoughtful author in Chatterjee is definitely disturbed by the side effects of the escalating consumerism and competition telling its effects on society- rising greed and double standards in the Indian middle class society, breakdown of bonds, degeneration of values and disintegration of nuclear families. He is also agitated by the lack of governmental will and concern for truly needy ones, the downfall professional ethics, and above all growing selfishness in all quarters of life. Moreover, it is to a certain extent his pessimism that captures more of negativity and oddity …show more content…

In English, August, he highlights the sad reality of the job in civil services that adds to the confusion of Agastya. In his essay “Rambling at Fifty,” he discloses his concern as to ‘how does one get the good men, the best men, in any system to govern the country?’ These queries also show the displeasure of the bureaucrat Chatterjee, who is perhaps too exasperated by the absurdity of ‘Nutsyanyaya’ all around him. Thus we see Agastya grapple with various ‘chiseled, honed and polished questions’ on various such subjects in The Mammaries of the Welfare …show more content…

His vision raises the demand of taking stock of the situation with an urgency of crisis. It insists on people and society in general to call in question their attitude towards one another, towards the nation and ponder whether it will pay well in future or be useful for their progeny. If not, then it’s time to initiate change, on personal, societal and system level. His literature is constituted of post modern Indian reality veering towards the dismal and decay and his wry and witty approach to serious issues is meant to shake the people out of their smugness and middle-class complacency so that they are forced to get up and

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