COEXISTENCE OF CARNAL DESIRE AND ELITE CULTURE IN ANANTH MURTHY'S SAMSKARA

Ananthmurthy's award winning novel Samskara portrays various aspects of South Indian Culture along
with intercultural relationship encountered like salad bowl in a small village. The so called elite culture of
Praneshacharya in this novel has been emerged at the cost of the sacrifices of baser human instinct and
carnal desire. Culture as a gist of all its definitions which lets an individual to celebrate his/her existence in
the society as the member of that group but a responsible and respected character like Praneshacharya gets
isolated from the society and he is detained within his own boundaries behind the walls of social taboos.
Culture which makes man more interactive, celebrative and open-minded and carnivaleseque performs
exactly in the contrast in the case of Praneshacharya. This paper is an attempt to explore this contrast from
the novel and illustrate how a poor guy is a prey of his own carnal desire against his own panorama of
cultural value responsible for his escape from the society and as a social being
Key words: Culture, Carnal Desire, human values