The Labour of Love becoming a Burden: A Study of Upamanyu Chatterjee's the lM.st Burden
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2016
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India is a male dominated society v.^here individual rights are
subordinated to socially constructed gender - roles. Even though the
Constitution of India has granted equal rights to women as that of men, gender
disparity still remains. In spite of many steps taken by the government and by
many organisations for the equality and the liberty of women, womerr are
suppressed and discriminated both in homes and in the outside world. Many
Indian writers who wrote in English focus on many aspects of human life.
Gender disparity is one of the major themes in Indian English fiction.
Upamanjm Chatterjee who, portrays India through his novels depicts gender
disparity prevailing in the Indian middle class society of the contemporary world in his second novel The Last Burden. It is an appraisal of the harsh
realities of the Indian middle class woman today.