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Volume : III, Issue : V, June - 2013 KAMALA MARKANDAYA'S A HANDFUL OF RICE – A STUDY JYOTHI KEERANGI DOI : 10.9780/22307850, Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Kamala Markandaya's A Handful of Rice is jolt to awaken the society to the
plight of the rural people. Ravi, the protagonist of this novel, is caught in the maelstrom
of change, in the transition from the tradition-bound rural society to the machine-ridden,
materialistic urban milieu. The novel deals with hunger & poverty and consequent
degeneration of human values. The modern man given to money and machine, hypocrisy
and corruption suffers from melancholy and mal-adjustment, emotional and
psychological instability. Skepticism, Surreptiously increased due to extreme paucity of
faith: (Sharma 1986:73), for, “Man ceases to have faith even in his own self' (Sharma
1985:30) Ravi searches for a world where he can breathe freely, society where he earn
his livelihood. He struggles hard to find a place in society, but due to socio-economic
pressures he is pushed back to his ill assorted destiny. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : JYOTHI KEERANGI, (2013). KAMALA MARKANDAYA'S A HANDFUL OF RICE – A STUDY. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. V, DOI : 10.9780/22307850, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2530.pdf References : - Banerjee, Niroj. Kamala Markandaya: A Critical Study (Allahabad: Kitab Mahal, 1990).
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