New Concepts of Post-Modern Novelists

Contents: Preface. 1. Religious element in Chinua Achebe\'s arrow of God. 2. Salman Rushdie and love versus terror in his Shalimar the Clown. 3. New women in Shashi Deshpande\'s moving on. 4. Woman\'s plight and class conscious discrimination in Rupa Bajwa\'s "The Sari Shop". 5. Quest for women\'s rights under human right in Arundhati Roy\'s "The God of Small Things". 6. Nationalism in the Novels of Manohar Malgonkar. 7. Usage and abuse of translation. 8. Alienation and Nostalgia in Anita Desai\'s \'Bye Bye Black Bird\'. Index.

"Oh, East is East and West is west, and never the twin shall meet" (Kipling). This concept is changed into post modern concept of the global relationship where the east is meeting the west. Every year about thousands of women of former USSR are married to U.S. citizens. Not only this a number of men and women of Asian Countries have married Europeans for their better lives ignoring traditional prejudices. The internet has brought the people of the entire world closer and shortened the distance of time and place where most of the things are remote controlled. In such a situation no body would tolerate the caste and colour discrimination and sex subjugation. The voices of the women, the marginals and the subalterns who still remained neglected and subjugated, can\'t remain subdued. The voices of the oppressed and the depressed are heard alround. They can\'t tolerate the age-long traditional discrimination and subordination. They can\'t put up with the customs which have exploited them in many ways."