Githa Hariharan and The Contemporary World of Challenges
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 3
Abstract
The present article attempts to critically examine and evaluate as to how long Githa Hariharan has been able to take up the growing challenges faced by India in particular and by the world in larger scenario. Her fictional world hails like a powerful rocket that nips straightway in the bud of many a contemporary burning issues, and one is taken aback, for instance, in the case the contemporary Indian world was seized about while she was amidst her journey across her fourth novel – In Times of Seize (2003) wherein a self styled Itihaas Suraksha Manch hails itself as the sole guardian of historical facts compelling an open university authorities to coerce its history professor Shiv Murthy to apologize for the so called distortion of historical facts, and even to put his resignation; who, however, musters the courage to respond to his conscience and affords to decline. An attempt has been made to examine as to how robustly she takes up the contemporary challenges like fundamentalism, communalism and marginalization, and various economic, political, social, and cultural ways that end women’s equality.
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Dr. Pawan Kumar
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