Thematic Concerns in the Novels of Anita Nair: A Study

The book deals with deals with major themes like depression, oppression, child abuse, rape, adultery, violence, female foeticide, isolation and troubled relationships in view of Anita Nair¿s novels The Better Man, Ladies Coupe, Mistress, Lessons in Forgetting, Cut like Wound & Idris . It is amazing to read the mindset of the writer, Nair, who can produce the characters like Mukundan and Idris from the same pen. The characters Akhila and Radha are two different women, former a spinster and the latter a married woman striving for independence and self-definition who represent two contrasting facets of Indian women. Another completely different character, a hijra is portrayed in the novel cut like wound. Man-woman relationship should be consistent in all aspects to create a harmony. Presumably, personal conditions of Nair¿s characters can be elucidated through the phenomenological perspective (inner experience) and the ending seems a new beginning. Nair¿s distinctive socio-historic location, her adaptability with different cultures, delineation of themes, her representation of men and women all make her writings a thought-provoking document on the contemporary society.