Kamala Markandaya’s Vision of Rural Life in the Novel ‘Nectar in a Sieve’: An Overview

Abstract

The fact is that Kamala Markandaya has rightly selected different themes suitably to illustrate her subjects either social or cultural in a creative stance and she has also been successful to operate them in her novels. That is why; her graphic and realistic presentation of the Indian socio-economic scenario has made her a well-known and gifted novelist in Indo-English fiction. Most of the scholars assume the fact that her novel ‘Nectar in a Sieve’ is more capable to attract the readers in a rather comprehensive manner. The grass root of analysis of her work shows that she has a good grasp of Indian rural life. The character of Rukmani in the Novel ‘Nectar in a Sieve’ has been deeply rooted on traditional society and indicates the rural vision of life. Moreover, this novel represents Rukmani as a typical Indian women who is quite crusader and she has been portrayed struggling in the changing rural India after the freedom of India. Thus, the present research paper highlights Kamala Markandaya’s rural vision of life in the novel ‘Nectar in a Sieve’.