Tracing influence, affinities and intertextuality in Aranyak and the hungry tide

The practice of placing more than one literary work verity for a study addressing as well as overcoming various construct barriers like ideological, therein political, cultural, geographical, linguistic etc. can yield that can illumine the true nature of the approach. More so, it can help locate the juncture, of human literary progress, or whichever. There can be further probings into the demands within the discipline for a fixed set of methods for the approach, defining the outlines of that etc. However, addressing these issues must keep to the ultimate ways that enables the novel approaches to assist in tracing the human literary progress. The two novels considered here for study belongs to two different time and background; Aranyak by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay aligned with Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide, the later being a post colonial work of Indian fictions in English.