LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 22:7 July 2022
ISSN 1930-2940

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Intents to Intensify Indian Sensibility in the Novels of
Arun Joshi

Dr. Vandana Goyal, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Abstract

Arun Joshi has added new dimensions to English novel in India. While his predecessors had concentrated on the socio-economic situation, Joshi looked inwards to discover the sources of the problems man suffers from. At the same time, Joshi has unambiguously referred to Indian scriptures and their message as forming an imperative part of the solution man needs to come out of the impasse. The anguish, the dilemma, the quest, and the arrival, in brief, to use his own words, “that mysterious underworld which is the human soul” find a voice in his fiction. His novels are primarily concerned with religious issues–the problems of an essentially Hindu mind.

Keywords: Arun Joshi, Hindu worldview, renunciation, positive approach, authentic life, universal questions of human existence.

In a way vehemently refreshing and innovatively reinterpretation of the paths of Activism and Contemplation, Arun Joshi has mapped new territories of consciousness. The path of renunciation does not abandon activity; rather, it preserves the spirit of renunciation. Activity, to be free, must leave no room for self-seeking impulse. The Gita insists on the performance of one's duty with detachment from the concerns of the fruit of the action. This synthesis is given wide and spectacular currency by the contemporary Indian thinkers in their schemes of reconstruction of the Hindu moral ideals, and Arun Joshi has vividly elaborated and enforced these ideals in all his novels. His ethos is, he tells quite categorically and disarmingly, “essentially Hindu” (Mathai 3).

According to Joshi the Indian mind has its own lineaments, its own peculiar (even if these are common to some other minds) habits and approaches to life's problems. The essential Indian emotional response has the following essential features: positive approach towards the world, cosmic and spiritualistic attitude, integral and synthetic view, bringing together of theism and absolutism, new approaches to salvation, vitality, openness and catholicity, and humanistic tendencies. In novel after novel Joshi uses these strands of thought and belief convincingly.

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Dr. Vandana Goyal, M.A, M.Phil., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of English
Govt. College
Hisar 125001, Haryana
India
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