Volume II Special Issue I January 2022

Name of Author : Ekta Chahal

Title of the paper : Treatment of Gandhian ideology in A Time To Be Happy

Abstract: Nayantara Sahgal 1927- is a brilliant and dedicated novelist who has creatively used Indian experience and described its subtle nuances in her fictional works. The fact that she was born in 1927 in Allahabad and she is daughter of Vijay Lakshmi and Ranjit Sitaram Pandit shows that she imbibed fully the socio-cultural and socio-political atmosphere of Gandhis India. When she was born, India’s struggle for freedom was at its height and what happened in the field of politics and in the socio-cultural atmosphere made a profound impact on her highly inquisitive mind. In her autobiographical work Prison and Chocolate Cake 1954, she herself points out that she grew up at a time when India was passing through a period of great political turmoil and with her, the growth of political awareness was a gradual and unconscious process and the most important influence in our lives17. She further writes that as a child she was touched by the spark of Mahatma Gandhi MG and this spark touched our lives in innumerable small ways and penetrated our consciousness gradually, so that as one grew it became a living part of us.Gandhi and his philosophy made an indelible impact on her young mind and on her growing intellect that India was thriving towards political maturity-a different kind of environment that the world had seen that was based on an ideology inspired by self-sacrifice, compassion and peace.

Keywords : Philosophy, Sarvodaya, Indian colonial history

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Page Number : 24-26