International Research journal of Management Sociology & Humanities
( ISSN 2277 - 9809 (online) ISSN 2348 - 9359 (Print) ) New DOI : 10.32804/IRJMSH
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ADOLESCENT AWAKENING OF TWO SISTERS IN KAMALA MARKANDAYA’S TWO VIRGINS
2 Author(s): SANEH LATA ,DR. MAHESH SINGH
Vol - 1, Issue- 3 , Page(s) : 107 - 112 (2010 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
Two Virgins (1973) Markandaya’s novel describes the adolescent awakening of two sisters belonging to a lower middle class family of a south Indian village. The problem that Markandaya has taken is central to her thought—the struggle between village and city, between pre and post independence, between old and new, between traditional eastern and modern western ways. In the characters of Two Virgins, Markandaya has presented the same kind of lure for the city, as we have seen in Ravi in A Handful of Rice and in the sons of Rukmani in Nectar in a Sieve. It was the challenge before post-independence India to consolidate and preserve the new form of society that still was in the grip of poverty, ignorance and backwardness. People had to work hard to make India free of all these evils