Research Scholar, Department of English, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga
Online published on 21 November, 2013.
Pragmatism means a way of seeing, accepting, and dealing with situations as they really are without being influenced by emotions or false hopes. The novelist in A Handful of Rice accepts and deals with the circumstances in the village and town as it, in actuality, is and does not endeavour to make up that it is poles apart. She is doing the pragmatic appraisal of the protagonist Ravi. She depicts the authentic and stunning pictures of Indian society. She attempts to underscore the state of Indian rural society. She poignantly deals with the trouble of poverty, hunger, unemployment, population, accommodation, generation gap, tradition etc.
So the proposed research paper would wind up the problems in detail inherent in Indian rural society. I would undertake to unearth the realities of Indian people.
pragmatism, unemployment, hunger, poverty, and Indian society