Romanticism In The Romantics

The Romantics is a simple yet classic book, but ultimately undistinguished. It is an Indian novel that again like many others in the market, focuses on India in Western eyes. The narrator is a young Brahmin boy named Samar, who is an Indian, and the book is set therefore in India. Apart from the main protagonist i.e. Samar, there are many of the other characters, who are Westerners. As per the requirement of the book, it is these westerners, against whom Samar measures himself throughout the plot giving it a shape and a picture like never before. Mishra tries to strike a balance between East and West, by contrasting the beliefs of these westerners that come to India in search of things like adventure, sometimes love or even unacceptable desires, enlightenment and the Indians themselves.

Unlike other romantic novels, The Romantics is among the counts of something of its own kind. The setting of the novel is largely in places that foreigners throng to, places of exile, retreat, and death including Benares (Varanasi), Pondicherry and Auroville, and the Tibetan Center in exile of Dharamshala. There is an unreality to each of these places -- deathly Benares, the Auribindo Ashram in Pondicherry, the misplaced Tibetan city of Dharamshala. The outsiders or the westerners,

There is truth on both the sides of the coin. On one hand, the dimension involves the very basic fact i.e. the westerners desires for such kind of philosophies in their lives mainly just to experience new things which should be different from the mainstream stuff. Also can be a reason that the sense of spirituality that they feel here may be lacked in the western culture. On the other hand, in the East people generally have the preconception that the western race is not able to understand their philosophies, which is not always true. At this party, he met Catherine, a beautiful French woman as mentioned earlier, who had loved a Sitar player called Anand. Samar is immediate gets mesmerized by