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Waiting For Mahatma Analysis

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Now I came to the five great Indo Anglian fictionists of twentieth century who have enriched the branch with their rich and valuable contribution. They are Mulkraj Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Bhabani Bhatttacharya and Manohar Malgonkar. Born in 1905 in Peshawer Mulkraj Anand was a prolific writer who made lower and middle class people, their social and economic condition and the injustice and inhumanity directed towards them by society as the subject of his three great novels- Coolie, Untouchable and Two Leaves And A Bud appeared in thirties like a perfumed wind. Untouchable is the most popular novel of Anand. It covers one whole day during which the hero Bakha faces countless social problems. ‘They think we are mere dirt because we …show more content…

The Bachelor of Arts describes the struggle of Chandran who, inspite of being a brilliant student, is unable to get a job. The novel puts forth the socio traditional set up in which the protagonist spends his life. Waiting For Mahatma is a political novel which describes the sympathy of Gandhi Ji for Harijans and his dreams and desires for a free and peaceful India. We find R.K. Narayans literary and moral flux coming out of flowing undisturbed after independence. In that mood he wrote three prominent novels- The Financial Expert (1952), The Guide (1958) and The Man Eater of Malgudi (1962). The Guide won the Sahitya Academy Award in …show more content…

Music For Mohini is another social novel in which Bhattacharya deals with the problem of adjustment for a city bred woman Mohini who is married in a village. The old and traditional view of life in the form of the mother in-law and the semi western view of life in the form of Mohini Clash against each other and finally Mohini learns to enjoy the music of life. A Goddess Named Gold deals with the confusion of Meera who is given a taveez by her grandfather and believes that it has the power to turn copper in to gold. Finally, she realizes that freedom is the real miracle stone and mercy has the power to change cruelty into

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