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SAMIRANIC in Dialogue with Indian Fiction: A Comparative Study with Major Indian Novels

Author(s) Dr. Anita Ghosh, Ashutosh Kumar
Country India
Abstract This research article undertakes a comparative critical study of SAMIRANIC, the novel project by Samiran Kumar Paul, in dialogue with major Indian novels written in English. Situating SAMIRANIC within the evolving tradition of Indian fiction, the study examines how the work negotiates key thematic and aesthetic concerns such as memory, place, nature, narrative time, and the formation of self. Unlike many contemporary Indian novels that foreground urban crisis, political rupture, or spectacular historical events, SAMIRANIC is read as a hybrid life-writing novel that privileges continuity over disruption and reflection over immediacy.
The article compares SAMIRANIC with representative works by R. K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Khushwant Singh, and Aravind Adiga to illuminate both affinities and departures. Through this comparative lens, the study argues that SAMIRANIC aligns with the Indian tradition of place-based realism and lyrical narration while simultaneously reconfiguring it through an eco-aesthetic sensibility and a layered concept of time. Nature in SAMIRANIC functions not merely as background but as a formative force shaping memory, ethics, and artistic vision.
A central focus of the article is the novel’s treatment of timeline, explored through chronological life-time, associative memory-time, and ecological or seasonal time. This triadic temporal structure distinguishes SAMIRANIC from plot-driven or nation-centric Indian novels and positions it within a reflective, poetic realist mode. The study concludes that SAMIRANIC represents a significant contemporary counter-current in Indian English fiction—one that restores value to the everyday, affirms cultural continuity, and reasserts the relevance of art and nature in understanding human experience in a rapidly globalizing world.
Keywords Keywords: SAMIRANIC; Samiran Kumar Paul; Indian English fiction; comparative study; life-writing novel; memory and place; art and nature; narrative timeline; eco-aesthetics; contemporary Indian novels
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Published In Volume 6, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On 2025-12-29
DOI https://doi.org/10.63363/aijfr.2025.v06i06.2738
Short DOI https://doi.org/hbhk4f
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