Description
In the charged aftermath of Partition, a woman’s private life collides with the public machinery of politics in Nayantara Sahgal’s A Situation in New Delhi. As tensions flare around the partition of Punjab along linguistic lines, Devi and her family—especially her son Rishad and the outsider Michael Calvert—are drawn into a world where loyalties shift, identities are tested, and safety becomes uncertain. Through their intersecting choices and misunderstandings, the novel captures the human cost of “man-made” crises: the way ideology, power, and rhetoric can turn ordinary days into emergencies. Sahgal’s incisive, psychologically alert style brings moral complexity to the forefront, exploring themes of displacement, gendered vulnerability, and the fragile boundaries between personal agency and historical forces.
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paperback
London Magazine Editions
Published Jan 1, 1977
165 pages
ISBN: 090438814X
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First Published
1977
Language
eng
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