Abstract
Ranu Uniyal and Arundhati Subramaniam are contemporary Indian English Poets. They are deeply rooted in Indian soil. Their poems are full of Indian ethos and deal with a wide variety of subjects. Spiritual nationalism is one of them. Like Aurobindo Ghosh, for them nationalism means true devotion towards one’s country and its people irrespective of their faith, caste, race and sex. India is a multilingual, multicultural and multireligious country. The conflicts on the basis of religion and culture are inevitable. People are often misguided by conservative and narrow- minded religious leaders and politicians which sometimes results in riots. Both Uniyal and Subramaniam believe that riots in a multicultural country like India are inescapable. India has faced so many invasions and incursions but continued to grow with the passage of time. The biggest strength of India is its spiritualism. It has empowered it during all external and internal assaults. Uniyal and Subramaniam believe that the negative forces which are destroying the peace and harmony of the nation can be defeated by realizing the core values of Indian culture. The objective of this research paper is to compare and explore the national ethos present in their selected poems: “In a City of Riots” by Uniyal and “Home” by Subramaniam
Highlights
The present paper focuses on the poems “In a City of Riots”by RanuUniyal and “Home” by Arundhati Subramaniam
Spiritual nationalism is one of them. This term was used by Sri Aurobindo Ghosh in his book Nationalism, Religion and Beyond: Writings on Politics, Society and Culture
While talking about Hinduism as religion Shashi Tharoor believes that Hinduism is a faith without dogma. “it is a faith that allows each believer to stretch his or her imagination to a personal notion of the creative godhead of divinity’(9)...it was part of the agglomerative nature of Hinduism that it neither rejected nor dismissed the faiths it encountered, but sought to bring them into the fold”(18).Uniyal is of the view that in multicultural and religious society it becomes unavoidable to escape riots
Summary
The present paper focuses on the poems “In a City of Riots”by RanuUniyal and “Home” by Arundhati Subramaniam. The aim of this research paper is to compare and uncover the aspects of national ethos present in the poems: “In a City of Riots” by Uniyal and “Home” by Subramaniam. This term was used by Sri Aurobindo Ghosh in his book Nationalism, Religion and Beyond: Writings on Politics, Society and Culture.
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