Abstract:

Kamala Markandaya is one of the best of the Indian women who have written novels in English since the genre's emergence following World War II. After the release of her first book, Nectar in a Sieve, in l954, she received widespread acclaim and became a household name throughout the world. She is still active in the world today. The author writes under the alias Markandaya. She used to go by Kamala Purnaiya before she was married, but once she started writing, she adopted the name Markandaya. In 1924, she entered the world into a prosperous, rather traditional Brahmin family in Mysore, South India. Her dad worked in transportation. Because of her father's repeated relocations for business, she had a "intermittent and casual" education but was also able to freely travel around India, the United Kingdom, and Europe. That "role of observer which every traveler assumes is good: mining for any wri1er," according to Miss Markandaya.I think it was my first paint, and it makes a nice, solid point. This experience gave her the perspective on human nature that would be invaluable to her later work as a writer. Her writings reflect her direct experience with western culture since she was a member of the so-called "Westernized upper class." Her language and her perspective on western personalities are influenced by this.

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Kamala Markandaya, Indian women, human nature, western culture