![]() ![]() Paul Verghese rightly remarks that “Food is the primary requisite of human dignity hunger debases and dehumanises man. Narayan in The Guide (1958), Bhattacharya in So Many Hungers (1947) and He who Rides a Tiger ( 1956) and Kamala Markandaya in Nectar in a Sieve (1954) and A Handful of Rice (1966) have raised their powerful voice against the problem of hunger and starvation. Anand in Untouchable (1933) and Coolie (1936), R. Narayan, Bhabani Bhattacharya and Kamala Markandaya had expressed their concern for the poor, the hungry and the destitutes in their novels. In Indian English literature, in the field of fiction, novelists such as Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Indian writers in English are also no exception in this regard. As the act of eating takes such an essential place in the day-to-day life of the humans as well as in the universal struggle for survival, the motif of hunger becomes a powerful force that drives the action and plot of many works of art. ![]() ![]() Literary depictions of hunger had been a powerful motif in the writings of many writers across the world. ![]()
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