Feminine sensibility in Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain

Abstract

The Paper focuses on an elderly widow's isolation and loneliness, as it tells the story of Nanda Kaul who lives in Kasauli and leads a solitary existence. In this novel, Anita Desai deals with the theme of loneliness, illusion reality, and domination of females in patriarchal Indian. The paper highlights the solitude and loneliness as well as the resultant anguish and agony in the deserted life of an old widow. Nanda Kaul is old. She has chosen to spend her last year’s high up in the mountains where she can arrange her thoughts into tranquility.  She fights back to understand the news, Raka beats on the windowpane, summoning her great-grandmother to observed the wildfire she has started in the ravine.