Tradition Vs Modernity in A Silence of Desire by Kamala Markandaya

            Literature is an artistic expression that is known and thought in the world. It appeals in the widest of human interests and the simplest of human emotions. It is occupied chiefly with elementary passions and emotion- love and hatred, joy and sorrow, fear and faith, which are essential parts of our human nature. Indian English literature or otherwise called Indian writing in English refers to the writers in India, who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the languages of India. It has a relatively short but highly charged history.