Artists in Voices in the City

Abstract

In the field of Indian fiction writing novelsists like Ruth Prawar Jhabwala, Kamla Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Bharati Mukherjee, Shashi Deshpande, Anita Desai, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, and Khuswant Singh have made a significant contribution. These writers have been elaborating the situation authentically, emotionally and intellectually. All these writers have been able to bring out the narrowness of people and provide them with the real touch in readers mind.
Anita Desai has great achievements in writing novels and literary books. She has written novels in different ways and images which represent the new dimensions to Indo-Anglican fiction. She has noted that India is a land of Raja-Maharajas as well as the land of snake-charmers. She also have highlighted the brutal and brutalising caste-system, superstitions, communal tensions and bigitry in the life of Indian people. She is a very distinguished Indo-Anglican novelist who has been able to find out “a marvellous elasticity and expressiveness.â€1

She imposes the idealistic life in real sense and principle including common characters of confuring Indian society with authentic picture. India is a land of villages where true India lives. Her purpose of writing is to discover the truth authentically, as “Plunging below the surface and plumbering the depth’s then illuminating those depths till they become a more lucid, brilliant and explicables reflection of the visible world.â€2 Anita Desai has more interest in characters than creating the environment which is generally used to define characters.