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Article Name :
RURAL CULTURE IN MANOJ DAS'S CYCLONES
Author Name :
SNEHAL RATNAKAR HEGISHTE
Publisher :
Ashok Yakkaldevi
Article Series No. :
ROR-320
Article :
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Abstract :
Manoj Das is an outstanding bilingual writer in postcolonial India. He is a master of dramatic expression both in his English and Oriya short stories and novels. He is writer of international repute. He has received many awards including the Padma Shree, Sahitya Akademi Award and Saraswati Samman. Cyclones is the first novel of Manoj Das published in 1997. There are prominent features of rural culture which are reflected in this novel. Having grown up in a remote village in Orissa, he has drawn his experiences to create authentic picture of rural life, the rural air of India of the times. The customs, rituals beliefs, superstitions of the villagers have found an expression in his fiction. The portrayal of rural life in the novel with people's problems and sufferings shows social reality. The novel begins with the description of a feudal family which is at its last stage of degeneration of economic standard. Life of the feudal lords is intertwined with the life of the villagers. The setting of the novel reflects authentic rural life in India. The locale of the novel is a village named Kusumpur of typical rural area in Orissa.
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