Authors:

Jagdish Joshi, Sandhya Vyas

Abstract:

India is the country where diversities are to be found everywhere and that reflects in its art for art has the tendency to reflect the world around. India, with its emergence in industries and technologies, has become the cynosure for many of the authors to portray in their literary masterpieces. With these imitations, many of the writers have concentrated on the aspects of modern India especially its metropolitan life style and their outcomes on social, political and cultural lives of the people or groups of different ethnicities. Illustrations of Indian Metropolis like Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta, and others are become the prominent interests in Indian English writings by New Generation authors. The present paper focuses on one of such masterpieces A Burning: A Novel (2020) by Megha Majumdar. The novel is a stark commentary on the devastating state of contemporary India which assimilates the concept of American dream. With the publications of many such sharp and realistic literature of representing modern India, one can definitely put them in the category of literature of Indian Dreams. The present novel encompasses the components of literature of marginalized nurturing big dreams in a country heading towards extremism. Portraying the lives of three different individuals which are interrelated with each other, Majumdar has shown how every individual is struggling with their own quests of power, fame and self-determination.

Keywords:

Extremism, Marginalization, Indian Metropolis, Indian Dream, Power, Fame, Self-determination. 

Vol & Issue:

VOL.13, ISSUE No.4, December 2021