Question

describe the novel indrabai G.Venkata Rao

Answer 1

In this novel, Gulavadi Venkata Rao depicts the crisis faced by the Saraswat community in a rapidly changing world. The novel investigates questions of colonial modernity, religion, community identity and the fashioning of the "new woman". This transformative novel harshly criticises a society which, unaware of the essence of religion, merely practises its external rituals. The novel argues that society must learn "discrimination appropriate to our times"; it must restore true faith, uprooting fossilised religious practices. As Indira Bai shows, the above process is possible only through education.