From Heaven Lake: Travelling Across Cultures by Vikram Seth

Travelling across culture is an endeavour to spread knowledge about the visiting provinces, on the route of the China, Nepal and India to his readers. This research work focuses on the prominent novelist, poet, and nonfiction writer, Vikram Seth. He who has been known as a citizen of the world. He is a cultural traveller. The work of Vikram Seth is a large variety of encyclopaedic and traditional forms and the places of his poetry and prose moves across the world, making literary homes of distant lands and cultures.


Introduction
Vikram Seth's initial loved work, From Heaven Lake, tells the story of a journey he created on the road from China to Asian nation as a young college man. As a hitch-hike, he travelled through rivers and across leech-ridden hills, Vikram Seth cosmopolitan through Northeast China to the Himalaya Mountains crosses four Chinese provinces, Xinjiang and Kansu within the north-western desert; then the basin and upland of Qinghai; and finally Tibet to India. Wry, observant and delightfully written, From Heaven Lake is an uncommon and intriguing exploration of one of the world's leastwell-known space and travel classic.
Within the modified surroundings of border conditions, because of that trendy ideas of cultural boundaries and political behaviour are being destroyed by the method of economic process, the same old read at migration as involving border crossing between two nonphysical (state) entities isn't any longer hypothetically satisfactory. Borders became "moving objects." It is simple to be a liberal international in Paris or New York. However, Vikram Seth is reception within the remote culture. In his foreign countries visit as California, London, Austria, China and its folks, although settled remote, are never strange to him or his readers. It's a general assumption that travel writing may be a quite analysis from the margins or a culture of them to a culture that belongs to us. But Seth, the adjustable and futuristic traveller, wherever he goes, he feels like at home everywhere and China was like another home to him so he never thought that he is entering into the border of another Asian nations or other continents. Once he had truly done therefore walking past a gnat troubled stream. Seth's travel narrative brings along adjacent, however, politically separated areas in an inventive or literary kind and combines them in an exceedingly distinctive nevertheless basically relative purpose of read.
Method-To collect the authentic information, varied analysis articles and 'From Heaven Lake' were studied. two nations and at the individual level he will solely affirm, by example that, to find out regarding another nice culture is to counterpoint one's life, to grasp one's own country higher, to feel a lot of reception within the universe, and indirectly to feature that reservoir of individual goodwill which will, generations from currently, temper the distrustful use of the national power. As Meenakshi Mukherjee has pointed out-The Non-Western worlds of continent and Asia have hardly even entered the literary portals of Indian writing in English.
The use of English language provides a way to Indian Writing in English that speaks for or represents the whole of India, particularly to the Western reading public. The faux plan of homogeneous national identity that emerges from Indian writing in English, relies on two imperatives: An erasure of linguistic/cultural variations at intervals Asian countries and also the strain of distinction with the West.  The geographical distance/dissimilarity between the two countries are tried to be blurred.
Usually, the important essence of a place/an area, and the experience of an individual among the folks of an area, she/he is visiting are erased by the formation of a archetypical 'traveller's gaze' supported the nationalistic affiliations, color of the skin, race, gender, class, education or the other formative factors. Moreover, the data a few place or those that one gathers before coming back to a specific place, that female parent Louise Pratt terms antecedent literary or prior/earlier literary productions, conjointly results in the formation of one or the opposite quite a gaze/s in a very individual. Vikram Seth has some kind of image in his mind for the China. He is born in India, a rustic that shares an awfully long borderline with China and therefore the border moulded with a huge chaos, he incorporates a previous and an awfully sturdy kind of China in his mind. However, in contrast to the colonial travel writers, he doesn't hold the "all knowing" subject position gazing at the passive "to be studied" objects. Vikram Seth could be an international person/leader, one who clutches philosophical system demographics. The foremost deeply entrenched border, evermore troublesome to alter, is that the mental structure. Despite equivalently of the folks everywhere interacting and act even as there's an Indian method. (Seth,23). Seth, like Amitav Ghosh, is separated from a majority of up to date travel writers because of his avant-garde stare upon a "historically defeated culture." Seth tries to settle a history of "mutual mental object and conflict" (Holland and Huggan, 2000). Seth understands that point and patience is needed to resolve the long drawn-out border downside between the two nations. Thus, he says: to be told regarding another nice culture in a very personal level is to complement one's life, to no one's own country higher, to feel additional reception within the world. Seth, in From Heaven Lake, acknowledges that the modern-days travellers should knowledge best to barter borders that are habitually the marks of indiscernible lines of politics forces (Pronami Bhattacharyya 2014). In his China to Asian nation journey, Seth is precisely drawn into such marginal or oppose areas. He reaches sikiang, a north-western province; the name means that the "New Borderland", and therefore the part autonomous, closely guarded and supervised country of Tibet. "Travel, for Seth, appears to be less a celebration of human freedom than an expertise of political barriers that are placed in freedom's path". In the article 'Into Nepal', Seth is seen traversing on foot towards Asian nation along with his carrier, Tenzing. We have a tendency to traverse a swish, meadow-green however nearly vertical slope; many metres on top of the river….A woman carrying a frock is laundry garments in a very little stream. She looks up at us as we cross And in doing therefore, Seth demystifies several myths that the colonial gaze had created concerning the opposite. For example, once at Lhasa, Seth witnesses a 'ghastly' ceremony that the imperial gaze attributed to the inherent brutality attributed to Tibetan rituals. The dead bodies were sliced and minced, the bone broken, and were fed to eagles. However, it is the result of deficiency of fuel to burn and also the ground is difficult for abundant of the year. Seth has described an old woman who sits in a doorway reading a letter and fanning her face with it. The troopers passing by cracking flower seeds between their teeth, it's not just associate in nursing exercise in jousting. Equally once he finds that the border between Kingdom of Nepal and China is outlined by a handful of rocks and wonders at the absurdity of a customs man rising from behind a tree and also the incontrovertible fact that it makes no distinction to the lady laundry garments that her soap is on the China facet and her garments on the Kingdom of Nepal facet, he's during a approach attempting to claim the unity between the pragmatic hard-edged world of geo-politics and negotiation on the one hand and also the alternative realm thickly settled by Sui, old women, and alternative such folks of the everyday world.