The Big House By Maya Character Analysis

As a submissive daughter, Maya was expected to honour her father’s name and wish and, of a middle-class Indian expatriate, she was also expected to “fit into life in the West without losing sight of our Indian values” (100). She would be the custodian and nurturer of cultural traditions in “renewed patriarchal structures” to foster an imagined unified and self-sufficient cultural community with strong ties to the old world. But Maya cancels her engagement with prakash to marry a Canadian man. By defying her father’s wishes and forsaking her family duties, Maya, on the one hand, initiates her own transformation into a diasporic subject with multiple belongings and groundings; on the other, she confronts Sripathi with the changing reality of

Only beggars do.”(91) Sripathi Rao was a stranger when he goes to Vancouver to take his orphan granddaughter Nandana. Food, clothing, people, rituals and culture were alien to her. Nandana could not adjust herself with Indian food. Nandana brings the postcolonial moment of what Homi Bhabha has famously termed the “unhomely (9) into the privacy of the Big House, Sripathi’s family home. Sripathi’s family has to contain this troubled little girl and Nandana must come home to terms with the death of her parents and her new life in India. The responsibility of the grandparents was to treat Nandana felt unfamiliar with the roots, customs, people neighbour, environment, education system of India society, climate of Toturpuram, celebration of festivals, issues of women, political condition, casteism, issue of education, beliefs in astrology, religious and social rituals in Indian culture and tradition and the issue of settlement of Nandana a foreigner in Indian

Through Nandana, Badami has portrayed an Indian woman brought up in an orthodox environment of restrictions where her wishes were crushed but she wanted her daughters to follow their own choices. Anita Rau Badami represents the multi-cultural society. They conceptualize cross-fertilizations between Canadian literature and intervene they thematize the ways in which the effects of environmental and economic global restructuring, along with the disintegration of received local forms of national and cultural identification, transform the microspaces of social