LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:3 March 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Post-Colonial Family in Nectar in a Sieve

R. Murugan, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Research Scholar
Dr. V. Peruvalluthi

Kamala Markandaya

Kamala Markandaya (1924-2004) was a distinguished woman novelist on the Indian scene. Her work is noted for her Feminist orientation. Her novels tell the world the obstacles women face and disadvantages they suffer in the conventional Hindu world. In Nectar in a Sieve, Markandaya pictures a woman’s struggle to find happiness in changing times in India.

Kamala Markandaya derives the title Nectar in a Sieve from Coleridge, whose lines form an epigraph to the novel: Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live. (Qtd. in Iyengar, 438) Kamala Markandaya has used the couplet by Coleridge because these lines vividly state the theme of the novel. When work is done without any hope it becomes as useless as nectar in a sieve. If there is no objective in life, life becomes useless. M.K. Bhatnagar, in his essay “Kamala Markandaya: A Thematic Study,” rightly observes that Markandaya’s first novel Nectar in a Sieve illustrates all her basic preoccupations: the protagonist narrator Rukmani caught in a hard peasant life; the vagaries of nature, the depredations of modern civilization (in the shape of tannery), the forced migration to city and so on, enlightening how work without hope draws nectar in a sieve. (Bhatnagar 3)

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R. Murugan, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Research Scholar
Vice Principal & Head of the Department of English
Aruna Vidhya Arts & Science College
Kannakurukkai
Tiruvannamalai
Tamilnadu
India
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Dr. V. Peruvalluthi
Associate Professor of English
Government Arts College
Tiruvannamalai
Tamilnadu
India
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