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A strong woman knows she has strength enough for the journey, but a woman of strength knows it is in the journey where she will become strong. Women have significant place in Kamala Markandaya’s novels.  Her protagonists possess life-affirming qualities. By making them central characters of her novels, she has highlighted their roles in present-day world. Being a women novelist, Kamala Markandaya has brought mostly women characters into being. She breathes life in her women characters. Kamala shows her sagacity in launching female characters as her protagonists. The aim of writing this research paper is to highlight Rukmani’s character the protagonist in Nectar in a Sieve. Rukmani is one who feels deeply and loves fiercely. Her tears flow as abundantly as her laughter. She is both practical and spiritual. A strong message which Rukmani gives in Nectar in a Sieve is that one must have faith in life. Faith is a great sustain power with which one, like Rukmani in the novel, can brave any hardship or misfortunes and even draw ‘nectar in a sieve’.

Social images related with society. In our society, there are so many social problems. Both the novel brings out the suffering of the poor human being. Bakha, the protagonist in Untouchable represents the exploitation which has been the destiny of untouchables like him. The untouchable belongs to the scavenger caste. Thus, untouchable deals with different kinds of exploitations such as social, political, economic and sexual exploitation. Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie is a novel of child labor. Munoo is the central character or protagonist of the novel, Coolie. The novelist depicts the turn child labor in the life of Munoo through his story of repression. The novel Coolie is a painful story of human suffering. It discusses the problems of coolies in our society.  Mulk Raj Anand was one of the first India-based writers in English literature. He was an Indian writer in English. He is appreciated for his novels and short stories. Life of this great writer is filled with immense happenings. Certainly some of them are very critical and some are unbelievable.  He focuses various social, economic and cultural issues in his works particularly in his novels. He has written about 15 novels; some of them his famous novels are Untouchable (1935), Coolie (1936), Two Leaves and a Bud (1937), The Village (1939), Across the Black Waters (1939), The Sword and the Sickle (1942), The Private Life of an Indian Prince (1953). He has written also two collections namely Indian Fairy Tales (1946) and More Indian Fairy Tales (1961). In addition to this, he has created more than 6 collections of short stories. Anand’s first three novels – Untouchable, Coolie and Two Leaves and a Bud deal with the social issues in Pre-independent India. Anand focuses the lot of class of the deprived, the oppressed and the exiles. Coolie and Untouchable are the best example of the deprived and oppressed society.