Reading Sudha Murthy’s Mahashweta as a ‘Mirror Literature’ to Current Societal Engagement

Abstract

Reading fiction is fun, entertaining, relaxing, exciting and educational, besides, allowing us to set off a life-travel through some one’s experiences. Apart from learning about different locales, different cultures, and different time periods, it exposes to the variety of human emotions. It can also be comforting, something soothing tracking another mental place which raises the spirit of endurance to challenge, to look at things in a different way than we’re accustomed to that perks up social perception and emotional intelligence. ‘Reading fiction and exposure to it always correlate positively with empathy.’ (Raymond Mar & Keith Oatley) My expectancy is that by working together it is possible to build a constructive and creative environment that encourages risk-taking, ambition, and self-discovery. This present paper showcases how ache leading to tender-toughness experienced by the female-protagonist, Anupama in Sudha Murthy’s Mahashweta, opens the mind’s eye allowing better understanding of how societies operate, why people are living in picky ways, and why to maintain good relationships; helping to relate emotionally with other people, to recognize the difficult struggles of our fellow men and women; making personalities built by genuine tenderness through ‘Verbal and Non Verbal Data, Simple TOTEs, Thinking out Loud strategy and Reading times etc.