• Dr. Thandava Gowda T. N.

Upamanyu Chatterjee’s English August opens an extensive avenue to explore the human emotions linked with the spirit of alienation of an individual occupied in Indian Administrative Service. Agastya, the protagonist of English August, is an IAS officer whose life cascades a lot of emotions spent in isolation. Chatterjee’s personal experiences during his helm of affairs in in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India shall have taken an artistic dimension in the character delineation of Agastya. Certainly, the administrative ingenuity of Chatterjee tailors to the need of the researchers to explore this novel, which bagged up Sahitya Academy Award, in discrepant perspectives. This research article is a study to explore such an inner strive of a person in officer cadre of top hierarchy in the organizational structure of Indian Administrative hierarchy.

Alienation, English August, Upamanyu Chatterjee

"INNER STRIFE AND ALIENATION OF AGASTYA IN UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE’S ENGLISH AUGUST: AN INDIAN STORY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.241-245, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902F12.pdf

"INNER STRIFE AND ALIENATION OF AGASTYA IN UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE’S ENGLISH AUGUST: AN INDIAN STORY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp241-245, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902F12.pdf