Nectar in a Sieve

Nectar in a Sieve

Introduction

Kamala Markandaya was born in 1924 in South India in a family of Brahmins, the highest caste Hindu studied history at University of Madras. He was a journalist and began to publish short stories in magazines and newspapers. At age 25 he moved to London where he lived until his death in 2004. He wrote the novel Nectar in a sieve in 1954 resulting in an immediate international success, in Italy, the first edition was in 1956. He is considered a pioneer among the Indian writers of the English language and his novel is considered a classic study in universities (George, 2009).

It is part of the first generation of writers who described the conflict between the Western and Eastern values, the situation and the poverty of rural areas, the processes of urbanization, industrialization and the great changes that caused them in the uses and customs of rural populations.

Discussion

It's a novel that describes the transformation of rural life in the village caused by industrialization. The characters are depicted with great precision. As far as the themes of the novel are concerns, I believe that the themes are,

Hunger as a Threat to Dignity

Knowledge as Power

The Strength of Truth

The details of the themes are given below,

Hunger as a Threat to Dignity

In Rukmani's journey for dignity, hunger is an intense foe. Fear of hunger, she states, torments the peace of each worker who exists by the impulses of the wind and sprinkle. Tired of steady craving, her son split up the family in order to search a new life in another land. Rukmani watches the supplicants at the temple prodding and pushing like creatures to secure a share of food. Correspondingly, street beggar youngsters' growl and battle like brutes over a scrap dropped in the road (Webb, 1991). Rukmani prosecutes both the industrialization of the villages, stood for by the tannery, and the laws of area possession that bankrupt and relocate laborers like her and Nathan. That's why I agree the theme of the novel.

Knowledge as Power

The poor in Markandaya's novel normally suffer at the hands of the solid, yet some of them believe that knowledge is a prevailing weapon for change. Rukmani demands educating her youngsters to write and read, in spite of the fact that numerous in the village accept such learning prompts inconvenience (Holt, 1989). This shows a good thinking as education is equally necessary for all this is the reason for agreeing this theme.

The Strength of Truth

The fertility of the region is principal, for when the area does not prepare, the family starves. Pictures of grains of rice, sprouting paddy, and the harvest speak for life itself.

Nectar in a Sieve, set in an Indian village, would clearly give a simple study of universal gender roles. In patriarchal Indian society, with its history of colonization and prevalence of abject individuals in numerous zones of the country, ladies and young ladies meek to spouses, fathers, and offspring endure most in the whatever time was spent growth ...