Continuity of Time in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day

Pages:64-65
Kamal Rani (Vaish College, Rohtak, Haryana)

Time is something inescapable Nobody can stop or arrest the passing of time. All human beings are slaves of time. But there is a deep truth underlying this paradox. The passage of time does not destroy everything because certain things are indestructible and imperishable. Infact, certain things acquire a greater validity, a greater weight and a greater solidity, in course of time. Two examples are the ancient Roman culture, and the ancient Indian culture. These two cultures still exist. The epigraph from Eliot reads: