Today’s condition of old age people in Indian setup

N. Kavitha; M. Hema; N. Priyadarshini; S. Shanthi; M. Pramila

doi:10.53730/ijhs.v6nS6.12494

Authors

N. Kavitha Associate Professor, Department of English, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
M. Hema
m.hema@kpriet.ac.in
Associate Professor, Department of English, KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
N. Priyadarshini Assistant Professor, Department of English, P.A College of Engineering and Technology, Pollachi, Tamilnadu
S. Shanthi Assistant Professor, Department of English PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
M. Pramila Assistant Professor of English, M Kumarasamy College of Engineering, Karur, Tamilnadu, India

Keywords:

family, plan, helplessness, old age, bond

Abstract

Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters is a novel which centers the family and the emotions of everyone in the family in a good and bad way. This novel shows well the bondage between father and a daughter, step father and a step daughter, grand - father and grand - sons and husband and wife. It is moving account of every middle class family in an Indian set-up. The readers could experience the real feel of incidents happening at their own familes. Family Matters is an exposure of defenselessness, sadness, pain, and travails of parents in old age and cold-bloodedness and heartlessness of children. The problems of old parents are elaborated through the protagonist Professor Nariman Vakeel. Through one family, the novel reveals not only predicament among India's Parsis, Persian-descended Zoroastrians, but wider corruption and communalism. It hints at the ripple effects of public policies on private lives. This paper exhibits the real life style and the status of old people in Indian middle class families.

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