Theme of hunger and degradation in Kamalaya Markandaya’s novels

Pages:21-23
Sunitti Kalra (Research Scholar, Department of English, Singhania University, Rajasthan)

Kamala Markandaya was genuinely concerned with the problems of rural India before independence. Among many ailments, hunger and degradation were the most torturing and disgusting .They were the greatest social concerns of India before freedom. In her various novels, she had dealt with several problems concerning various aspects of India like social, political, national and international in the form of the East-West Confrontation. References to human degradation could be found in almost all her novels .Her tragic vision found its best expression in her novels which she filled with her social concerns. She did it for the sake of human amelioration and betterment.”Kamala Markandaya’s novels are generated by the tragic vision that finds in contemporary life a fruitful seed bed for conflict.”1