Communal Disharmony In Post- Riot India With Reference To Githa Hariharan's Fugitive Histories

Abstract

As a creative writer, responding to social- political events Hariharan's writings occupy a very distinct space in Indian English Literature. Her narratives are very realistic with no attempts to allegorize. She presents them in all starkness, irony, and tragedy, right from her very first novel The Thousand Faces of Night. In Fugitive Histories Hariharan brings out the issues of communal disharmony in the name of religion from the women's point of view through the experience of three women's lives.  She  works around a narrative strategy of constructing hint which deepens the readers' involvement with the story. Consequently thoughts, dreams, desire, and secrets play a major role in her story telling.