Hunger and Human degradation in kamala Markandaya’s a handful of rice

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to depict hunger and poverty, exploitation, deprivation, disgrace, anguish, and unemployment via the life of Ravi, the protagonist of Kamala Markandaya's novel A Handful of Rice (1966). This is a book about Indian society that is realistic. In this work, Kamala Markandaya attempts to address a variety of concerns. A Handful of Rice is a practice for teenagers who haphazardly rush to metropolitan places to make a living. The author explains that if there is nothing to give young people in towns, then the urban areas have nothing to offer them as well. With their little training, the employees become entangled in the urban shadows of malice. Individuals who surrender to sly techniques such as Damodar's get fame, recognition, and riches, but not a family life. Those who keep to trustworthiness, like the primary protagonist Ravi, obtain a regular, if not cheery, family life, but not reputation, distinction, or money, contrary to popular faith. Kamala Markandaya brings her hero to the most incredible fatal picture of his life near the end of the narrative. Despite the fact that the great majority of the impoverished lose their hopeless battle against poverty, they retain their inner voice. The novel's subsequent line is incredibly heartfelt and might be considered at its pinnacle.