Through the Sociological lens: Portrayal of Indian Youths in Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others

Abstract

Neel Mukherjee is one of the remarkable novelists in Indian Writing in English. The
novel, The Lives of Others is the microcosm of West Bengal in which Murherjee highlights
the terrified life of poor farmers and their tricky landlords. Mukherjee’s skilfully handled red
hot issue of farmer suicide in the modern context. This paper aims to attempts how
Sociological criticism examines Indian youths as an outcome of the social protest against the
evils and injustices in society. As a social activist, Supratik and his friends, Dhiren and Samir
were joined in the CPI (M) in the hope of eradicate social injustice and problems like farmer
suicide, corruption, malpractices and class discrimination from the society. He creates master
plans for city activities and then left home to go into villages to support poor farmers. He
documents his daily events as what kind of lives the farmers were living in villages how they
were suppressed by money hunger landlords with the help of local police by bribing them to
flourishing corruption. How Naxalites were worked with these poor farmers and guided them
through their rights and prepared them for revolutions.