Unpacking the Postcolonial Puzzle: A Critical Reading of Indra Bahadur Rai's Ghosh Babu

Indra Bahadur Rai was a doyen of literature in Nepali/Gorkhali from India. A figure revered across time and space for his scholarship, unique style, and deceptively simple idiom, he is credited with works that have proven to be timeless. His works provide the minutiae of Gorkhali life with acute psychological and philosophical insights. His short stories sketched as vignettes present a stark reality, at times in a lyrical manner. His works often hailed as classics with a contemporary air, have welcomed various theoretical approaches and prying critical lenses. The paper is an effort to work on the contemporary nature of his short story titled Ghosh Babu. By using the lenses of postcolonial theory the intent is to set off a kaleidoscope of images and thereby focus on the possible meanings.