Search for the Essence of Human Living Depicted in Arun Joshi`s `The City and The River

Abstract

Amidst the plethora of Post Independent Indo-Anglian novelists,Arun Joshi is more emphatically concerned with search for the essence of human living and the need for the acculturation of man to establish him back to his roots , self and peace.Arun Joshi`s fifth and the last novel `The City and the River is about the anguished boatmen`s quest for meaningful life and search for a viable alternative amidst materialism, corruption, cynicism, alienation and dwindling spiritual faith .