Discovering the Theme of Politics in the Fictional World of Arun Joshi's The City and The River

As the dictionary explains politics is the science or art of government, political views, its which has concern with not only government machinery rather the more attention paid on public affairs and welfare living in a particular territory. After the independence of India several tumults and turmoil have occurred which have harassed the public welfare and the country is terribly influenced by it. The political conditions of the country have been expressed by a series of novelists who have expressed their views in for and against of the then government. The novels of Aron Joshi present the real phenomenon of Indian politics observed in the everyday life of Indian people. In India, people are habituated to put themselves in the context of political scenario for many reasons altogether. This paper aims to study the ironical display of human behaviour of an individual in imposed political atmosphere as we find in his novel The City and The River.