• E.PARASURAMAN
• Dr.A.S.JAYACHANDRAN

In Times of Siege is Githa Hariharan’s fourth novel. Her stories are replete with recounting of various kinds of inequalities and power struggles. They all in some way or the other emphasize the individual’s assertion for an identity. Giving voice to her beliefs has always been her strong point. In this novel she weaves some of her own experiences, like the broken leg or life in the university campus. Laid up in bed with a broken leg was a time of reckoning for her of coming to terms with what she must do as a writer she felt that she had to face what is happening directly. This concerted attempt to reduce the dichotomies in our Multicultural society is a matter of rising concern for all of us. The story of ordinary lives of men and women struggling to make sense of hatred, ignorance, love and loyalty to individuals, ideas and the nation. It holds up an uncompromising mirror of India today.

Relationship, Multicultural, Ambulatory Narrative, Ambulatory Narrative, Historiography, Fanatical Religious, Fundamentalism, Parochialism, Insularity, Primitivism.

"Man-Woman Relationship in Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 10, page no.f572-f578, October-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2310469.pdf

"Man-Woman Relationship in Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 10, page no. ppf572-f578, October-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2310469.pdf