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Volume : III, Issue : V, June - 2013

KAMALA MARKANDAYA'S A HANDFUL OF RICE – A STUDY

JYOTHI KEERANGI

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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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.

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JYOTHI KEERANGI, (2013). KAMALA MARKANDAYA'S A HANDFUL OF RICE – A STUDY. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. V, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2530.pdf

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