Essays on Fire on The Mountain

The very title of the novel Fire on the Mountain reveals the theme of the novel and expresses Desai’s point of view. The ‘mountain’ is symbolic of Nanda Kaul and the ‘fire’ of Raka’s wild nature. Nanda is the ‘rocky belt’, dry, hardened by time...

The Indian author Anita Desai creates in Fire on the Mountain (1977) a perfect tragedy in the Greek mode. The novel has an abrupt ending in a tragic manner and the tragedy becomes complete when Raka sets the forest on fire. Lonely and isolated Nanda...

Anita Desai’s unquestionable existential concern helped her to create an epitome aura, with a chiseled style, she got differentiated her from other novelists of the younger generation, she is the only novelist who shows some sort of similarity to Arun Joshi. But still Arun Joshi...