Kavery Nambisan is a surgeon who practices in rural India and her cancer in medicine has a strong influence in her fiction. Her third novel, Mango-Coloured Fish works on an essentially feminine premise. A few weeks before her marriage, the narrator-protagonist Shari flees to Vrindaban , where her brother and his wife work in a hospital, to sort out herself. Her revolt is against regularity, against a pattern, which has a maddening monotony. Hers is a symbolic travel into the nooks and crannies, into the recesses of her consciousness, leading to extraordinary self-discovery. This critical study probes the richly-textured novel and peels the layers of Shari's divided self. The text has been examined and analysed from Shari's perspective and several critical problem arising therefrom have been tackled for the benefit of university students. Shakti Batra has been Vice-Principal, Dyal Singh College (University of Delhi), has also taught at the Kabul University and the University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek.

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