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A Study on Communal Violence in Shashi Tharoor’s Riot
and Raj Kamal Jha’s Fireproof

B. Jeyapushpa, M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil.


Abstract

Shashi Tharoor and Raj Kamal Jha are contemporary writers of Indian Writing in English. Their novels mostly focus on contemporary social and political issues that affect the common man. Their works spin around the social evils concurrent in society as obstacles for the growth of the nation. Tharoor’s Riot centres on the riot of communal clashes. He portrays how the clashes between two religions groups results in a riot in which a number of innocent lives become the prey. By presenting voices from both the Hindu and the Muslim communities, he tries to prove how history is misled by personal favours. Jha’s Fireproof presents the brutal reality of communal violence. It portrays how innocent people are butchered by the mob. Jha wants to prove wrong the general opinion that the communal riot is carried out only by the illiterates. He insists that it is the participation of literates which is the most dangerous for a civilized country like India. The author also lashes out at the judicial system which remains motionless during riots. Both the writers focus on the brutal reality of communal violence and insist the need for change in the mindset of people.

Keywords: riot, communal violence, secularism, mob mentality, history, social reform

Introduction

Indian English Literature has come into existence as an interesting by-product of an eventful fusion taking place in the eighteenth century between a vast expanding and enterprising British Literature and Indian Literature. Indian writing in English refers to the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native language could be one of the numerous languages spoken in India.

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B. Jeyapushpa, M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor
Department of English
P. S. R. Engineering College
Sivakasi 626140
Tamilnadu
India
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