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Mistaken Identity: A Fiction with Intriguing Narrative of Nayantara Sahgal

Authors: Gajjala Mallesh

Country: India

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Abstract: The narrative style of Nayantara Sahgal’s fiction is widely acknowledged for her political inclinations with political ambiance of then society with the life and experiences of political personalities of elite class. The novelist’s Nayantara Sahgal is one of the great Indian novelists in English. She has published eight novels, six books of non-fiction, and some short stories. Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, was her mother’s brother, which means that politics is in her blood and her father, a Sanskrit scholar, died or an illness contracted when he was jailed for participating in the struggle for freedom. The novel weaves a beautiful, realistic and convincing fabric of man-woman relationship in a subtle manner. The novelist highlights the significance of a man’s influence on a woman’s life and the vice-versa. This influence conditions the working of the person’s psyche. Bhushan Singh, the narrator and Sahgal’s mouthpiece, encounters various women in his life and thus, undergoes varied experiences and reaches maturity towards the end of the novel.

Keywords: culture, emotional, fiction, identity, political


Paper Id: 326

Published On: 2019-03-29

Published In: Volume 7, Issue 2, March-April 2019

Cite This: Mistaken Identity: A Fiction with Intriguing Narrative of Nayantara Sahgal - Gajjala Mallesh - IJIRMPS Volume 7, Issue 2, March-April 2019.

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