Character Analysis Of Human Relationships In Shobha De's Sister

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HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS IN SHOBHA DE’S SISTERS

Dr. Neeraj Agnihotri
Prof & Head
Institute for Excellence in Higher Education
Bhopal Dr. Deepika Agrawal
Asstt. Prof.
Technocrats Institute of Technology
Bhopal

Abstract
As a writer Shobha De is skilled with exceptional capability to talk about very subtle facet of the human life. She discusses each and every characteristics of human relationship in an astonishing manner. Truly Shobha De can be called as a very rational and down to earth novelist who depicts the glamour world of the upper – middle class of India without any reticence. She explored the lives of bored housewives and their loveless rich husband and family. Her novels mirror the life styles of the elite and the middle classes of urban world.
Shobha De’s Sister is a tale of shady urban culture where human relationship has lost its all values. Altogether, it is a tale about emotional union between two sisters, Mallika and Alisha. They are the daughters, one legitimate and the other illegitimate, of renowned business man Hiralal who dies at the beginning. The story revolves around the shady urban world of corporate in Bombay. It is full of love, betrayal, sex, hatred, corruption and conspiracy. Shobha De effectively portrays evils of shady urban culture and salvation of main characters from these evils. Finally, it is not an escape or a salvation, but an acquiescence of reality. The present paper discusses the complexities of human relations in novels of Shobha De with