Navigating the Dualities of India: A Comparative Study of Nayantara Sahgal and Kota Neelima

The role of Indian writing at the Global level is vital as it represents the nation's History, culture and socio-economic dynamics. In the 1960s and 1970s, most of the writers in India transitioned from the socio-economic interests to the internal conflicts of the individual worlds. But the writers like Nayantara Sahgal and Kota Neelima kept weaving their writings around the grave external realities of India. Sahgal focused on the political landscape and the urban elite, but for Neelima, the focus was on the real, unseen and unheard rural India. Neelima was deeply working on the Agrarian Crisis in the rural parts of the nation. The contrast of these two writers' work signifies the clear contrast between the affluent city culture and the destitution of the countryside.