A Deconstructive Reading of Amish Tripathi's 'The Immortals of Meluha'

Abstract:

Amish Tripathi, an erstwhile IIM graduate, is a prolific writer who has written ten books so far. His first book is The Immortals of Meluha (2010) which is the first volume the famous Shiva Trilogy. He writes fictions in popular mode. The book is followed by The secret of the Nagas and The Oath of the Vayuputras. Jacques Derrida, a French, postmodern philosopher, proposed a theory of ‘Deconstruction’. It subverts or undermines the language of the text.  It is neither the construction nor the destruction of meaning. He puts radical questions to the fundamental philosophical concepts such as knowledge, truth, identity, language and other approaches as well. The paper explores the deconstructive elements from the first book of Shiva Trilogy, which is inhibited with some postmodern elements and techniques.