Authors : Subhash Kishanrao Shinde
Page Nos : 80-82
Description :
He Who Rides A Tiger, written by the renowned post-independence Indian novelist Bhabani Bhattacharya, focuses on how racial and class inequality pushes a protagonist away from morality and towards vengeance. When that emotion begins to entrap him in a never-ending cycle of suffering and agony, his confession saves him and gives him the ultimate victory over himself. His writings make obvious the novelist’s worries with the social, political, economic, cultural, and spiritual issues that India was experiencing shortly after gaining independence from the British. The purpose of He Who Rides A Tiger is to show how the religion and the caste system both are false. A dramatic sequence of events demonstrates the crucial spiritual direction that emerges in times of crisis, even if one is provoked to feelings of retaliation and caught in one’s own trap.
