Socialist Realism in Kavery Nambisan’s The Truth (Almost) About Bharat

Pages:52-55
Archana Dahiya and Itika Dahiya (Department of English and Foreign Languages, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak)

Literature is a reflection of society that tends to exhibit a full panoramic view of the socio-economic and political factors and problems of a particular society. A cause-and-effect relationship exists between the society and its literature. The social-minded writers usually write about their respective societies reflecting the socio-cultural factors and problems in order to bring some changes in their existing social system or set-up. A major stock of Indian English fiction focused on portraying the realistic aspects of society whether they may be sweet or horrid with the sole aim of inspiring the humanity in general to wake up and take remedial measures to sort out the problems as depicted by them. According to Jainender Kumar Jain, “literature was like a mirror, reflecting society as it was, now it has become something which, while it depicts the realities of society, is not much bothered about flattering it and is more concerned about striking a blow at it, and in this way, compels it to move forward” (135).