Dialectics of Human Relationships as Represented in Kiran Nagarkar's Cuckold and God's Little Soldier

<p> It is said that the novel form that flourished in<br>Europe with the emergence of the middle class after the<br>industrial revolution, was the most suitable form to capture<br>the growing familial and societal anxieties of the newly<br>established class order. As a blessing in disguise, the colonial<br>world in India was also exposed to this new form. Right from<br>the inception of the novel form, the Indian novelists have<br>grappled with the idea of representing the changing dynamics<br>of the family institution with the advent of societal changes.<br>Kiran Nagarkar (1942—2019) is one such significant Indian<br>English novelist writing in the phase of post-colonialism.<br>Clash of social—personal worlds amidst the rampant<br>decadent world has remained Nagarkar's prime concern. In<br>the present research paper, the researcher would like to<br>discuss the representation of family institution in Kiran<br>Nagarkar's two novels namely, Cuckold (1997) and God's<br>Little Soldier (2006).</p>