Central Idea In Kamala Markandaya’S a Silence of Desire

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Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education [JASRAE] (Vol:15/ Issue: 1) DOI: 10.29070/JASRAE
Authors: Seema Bai*,
Subjects: Multidisciplinary Academic Research

Year: Apr, 2018
Volume: 15 / Issue: 1
Pages: 899 - 901 (3)
Publisher: Ignited Minds Journals
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E-ISSN: 2230-7540
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Published URL: http://ipublisher.in/p/221558
Published On: Apr, 2018

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Central Idea in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire | Original Article

Seema Bai*, in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education | Multidisciplinary Academic Research

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ABSTRACT:

Kamala Markandaya the pseudonym of Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, one of the most talented women writers of Indian fiction in English, was born to a well-connected Brahman family. Her novel A Silence of Desire (1960), explores the theme of the clash between traditional values and modern beliefs, between faith and reason. Dandekar is a middle class clerk who is happily married to Sarojini.