Analysis Of Bhabani Bhattacharya s Big Three

Bhabani Bhattacharya is a great novelist among the old masters, who wrote their works which show their great creative power. Though he has not been put in the group of the ‘Big Three’- Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao and R.K. Narayan but he is unquestionably one of the celebrated Indo-English fiction writers. Some critics rightly regarded him as one of the four wheels of the Indian English novel. His fictional output, spreading over a period of about thirty years, consists of six novels and one collection of short stories viz. So Many Hungers (1947), Music for Mohini (1952).He Who Rides a Tiger (1955). A Goddess Named Gold (1960), Shadow from Ladakh(1966), A Dream in Hawaii(1978), and Steel Hawk and Other Stories(1968). In all his novels we find Socio-cultural matrix. His novel So Many Hungers is endowed with a transparently positive vision of life - explored and expressed artistically. Since he believes that the novel should have a social purpose, he gives the treatment of social culture of India in his novel. The novel is the blend of tradition and contemporaneity values, which he found in the social and historical realities in his country. His works have sincerely blended the two beliefs of Indian culture. The present paper is an attempt to showcase the most conspicuous feature of Bhabani Bhattacharya’s writings with special reference to his novel SO Many Hungers. Keywords: Socio-cultural matrix, Contemporaneity, Tradition, Indian Culture Research Paper The fusion of the