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A STUDY OF ARUN JOSHI’S: ‘THE FOREIGNER’
Dr.Indu Prakash Singh
Abstract:
Arun Joshi, an internationally renowned novelist, has added an outstanding contribution in the hierarchy of Indian English novels. His ‘The Foreigner’ is a superb work of art which presents the modern man’s existing predicament in which he is bound or compelled to remain. The modern man is haunted by the sense of rootlessness, alienation and the problems of existence. SindiOberoi, the hero of the novel, is the son of a Kenyan – Indian father and English mother. Being bereaved of the love of his parents in his childhood, Sindi always feels sense of alienation and rootlessness. In the course of his study he goes to England and then to America. And in England and in America he develops affairs with women and girl like June Blyth but his sense of alienation and detachment remains the same. When he comes to India and joins the company of Mr. Khemka