The Impact Of Political Power And Hegemony In Gita Hariharan’s ‘In Times Of Siege’

R.AKBAR ALI, Dr. A. ABDUL HAKEEM

Abstract


Gita Harihara is a well-known writer in English. She adopted her unique style of writing to record her own experiences of hurt and humiliations. Being a social activist, she mainly focused on exhibiting the realistic status of Indian women. She described the sufferings, bitter experiences and depression of women in all of her novels in order to point out the challenges to the present status of women both in Indian society and also outside India. Socio-cultural realities, social system and tradition of Indian society are reflected through her characters. Community, Religious tension, racial difference and Patriarchy of male dominated society are the key factors for the social harassment in our society.


Keywords


Social harassment, Religious tension, Humiliation, Racial difference, Social system

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