men are expected to work more and provide the primary source of income for the family. The women in Nectar in a Sieve, by Kamala Markandaya, seem to have a higher status and be valued more than the women in Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe. This difference in gender equality has more to do with the men leading the main family in each book than their communities’ views on women. Nectar in a Sieve focuses on Rukmani and her family. Rukmani and her husband, Nathan, have a loving relationship built
As a teenager it is astonishing to see how much Ira shows her passion for her family, for most teenagers push theirs aside in shame. In the novel Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya, Ira demonstrates the importance of family, and the value of having such forgiving parents. As Ira's life collapses into depression she retracts back to living with her family and promptly falls back into her commonplace as an active household member, for as soon as Kuti is born she treats him as her own son, then
Ram Mohan Roy. And later he had dedicated pages about social reform and religion in India in English. Most prominent Indian English writers like: Rabindranath Tagore’s Sadhana, R.K Naryan’s Malgudi Days. Later novelists like Kamal Markandya’s Nectar in a Sieve, Some Inner Fury, A Silence of Desire, Two Virgins, Manoharmalgaonkar’s Distant Drum, Combat of Shadows, The Princes, A Bent in the Ganges and The Devil’s Wind, Anita Desai’s Clear Light Of Day, The Accompanist, Fire on the Mountain, Games Out