The Cultural Controversy and Political Paradox in Nayantara Sahgal’s The Day in Shadow

Abstract

Sahgal shows the social taboos which prevailed in New Delhi during the 1970s. She presents a figurative cross section of the Indian nationality such as the political masters, bureaucratic politicians, business barons and social parties in interaction with intellectuals. She depicted the phenomenon of the Emergency - the corruption, the forcible sterilization of ideas and the crushing of all the disturbing protests.