Apocalypse: A World of Destruction in R.K. Madhubir’sThe Shadow of Darkness

Abstract

Abstract

Indian Literature is a part of Post-colonial literature. Many writers try to analyse critically the kind of relationship between the colonisers and the colonised and the impact of that relationship on the colonised minds. They reiterate their themes on the political, linguistic and cultural experiences of the colonised people. In India too, some independent kingdoms which were not part of the then Indian subcontinent were former colonies of the British. However, after the British left, these kingdoms came directly under the supervision of Indian Government. Paradoxically, the kingdoms were colonised twice in their early dawn both by the British and the Indian subcontinent. They lie on the extreme north eastern periphery of India and now are known to the mainlanders as the North-East India. It consists of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura. The collective body of literature resulted from this region is called North-East Literature. R.K. Madhubir is a renowned Manipuri poet who had contributed his finest writings to Indian Literature by publishing three volumes of poetry in English. The paper will discuss the poet’s observation on the events involving complete final destruction on a catastrophic scale from his poetry collection,The Shadow of Darkness.