• Dhiroj Kumar Tripathy
• Omprakash Tiwari

The Shadow lines by Amitabh Ghosh is a brilliant work conceived brilliantly, raising a plenitude of contemporary issues with veracity of themes. These themes put together and chained one by another in such a way that it often creates ambiguity as to which one is to be prioritised. It has structural intricacies and thematic profundity. Throughout the novel the reader experiences a number of historical events, interwoven meaningfully with the existing contemporary issues. At the forefront it bears meanings of political freedom, nationalism, post-colonialism, partition, multi-culturalism and so on. Furthermore, deep within the character’s interpersonal relationship what can’t be ignored, there lies the instinctive human love and consequent rejection which happens to be one of the major themes. This article is an attempt to bring out the theme of love and its deprivation that pervades all over the novel.

Boarders, Themes, Love, Issues

"Love as a major source of pain -The Shadow Lines ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 6, page no.76-79, June-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2006011.pdf

"Love as a major source of pain -The Shadow Lines ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 6, page no. pp76-79, June-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2006011.pdf