Kamala Markandaya's A Silence of Desire and Possession (Exploring Psychological Dimensions of Spirituality)

Kamala Markandaya belonged to that pioneering group of Indian women writers who made their mark not just through their subject matter, but also through their fluid, polished fictional technique. The works of Kamala Markandaya reflect the modern, traditional and spiritual values of the Indian societies. Her characters represent these values in a very subtle manner. The psychological conflict in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire takes its roots in the basic opposition between Sarojini’s unreasoned belief in the healing faculty of the Swamy and Dandekar’s rational belief to disapprove it whereas in Possession Vals journey through negative freedom and an escape from responsibility to the self-realization reveals his psychic problems. The present paper is an attempt to explore the psychological dimensions of spirituality in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire. and Possession.Kamala Markandaya belonged to that pioneering group of Indian women writers who made their mark not just through their subject matter, but also through their fluid, polished fictional technique. The works of Kamala Markandaya reflect the modern, traditional and spiritual values of the Indian societies. Her characters represent these values in a very subtle manner. The psychological conflict in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire takes its roots in the basic opposition between Sarojini’s unreasoned belief in the healing faculty of the Swamy and Dandekar’s rational belief to disapprove it whereas in Possession Vals journey through negative freedom and an escape from responsibility to the self-realization reveals his psychic problems. The present paper is an attempt to explore the psychological dimensions of spirituality in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire. and Possession.Kamala Markandaya belonged to that pioneering group of Indian women writers who made their mark not just through their subject matter, but also through their fluid, polished fictional technique. The works of Kamala Markandaya reflect the modern, traditional and spiritual values of the Indian societies. Her characters represent these values in a very subtle manner. The psychological conflict in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire takes its roots in the basic opposition between Sarojini’s unreasoned belief in the healing faculty of the Swamy and Dandekar’s rational belief to disapprove it whereas in Possession Vals journey through negative freedom and an escape from responsibility to the self-realization reveals his psychic problems. The present paper is an attempt to explore the psychological dimensions of spirituality in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire. and Possession.Kamala Markandaya belonged to that pioneering group of Indian women writers who made their mark not just through their subject matter, but also through their fluid, polished fictional technique. The works of Kamala Markandaya reflect the modern, traditional and spiritual values of the Indian societies. Her characters represent these values in a very subtle manner. The psychological conflict in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire takes its roots in the basic opposition between Sarojini’s unreasoned belief in the healing faculty of the Swamy and Dandekar’s rational belief to disapprove it whereas in Possession Vals journey through negative freedom and an escape from responsibility to the self-realization reveals his psychic problems. The present paper is an attempt to explore the psychological dimensions of spirituality in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire. and Possession