addressing the same concept to portray their own perceptions on various situations or rather to position their reader to respond into certain ways. Anita Desai and Nasra in the short stories ‘surface textures’ and ‘ANDBWAND’ appear to raise a similar concept nonetheless in varied ways. Nonetheless they both use characterization and style to build up on epiphany. Anita Desai’s stories are set in present day Bombay and other cities in India to reflect on urban life, . Her stories are inhabited with intensely
companions. Fate plays a pessimistic role in his life and in spite of having possessed good human qualities of sincerity, honesty and adjustment, he meets a tragic end. Since Arun has been a victim of nauseating care, he too believes in escapism to attain his lost identity. Emotionally starved, he disappears into the abyss of anonymity in America, the land of liberty. On comparing the Indian and American culture, he finds that if children in India are over-protected, in America they are left too
The post- independence period in the recent Indian history corresponds suitably with the ‘nodal period’, when a number of Indian writers of fiction in English try to explore and manifest Indian reality. In these writers, we do not find either the commitment of the earlier period or even the amused narration of the trials of middle class, trying to unite the past traditional outlook with the fast emerging realities of the modern living conditions. In this effort, the writers of the post independence