The Impact of the English Women Novelists on Kajal Oza Vaidya’s Novel Krishnayan (2006)

Abstract

Kajal Oza Vidya is a very popular Gujarat writer, particularly, among the youths. She has written many novels, short stories, plays, poems, essays etc. She takes up domestic and social issues in her works. Man, woman, love, marriage, life, human relations and their nature today in the society etc. happen to be her major concerns. She has also dealt with the issues of the young generation ladies like their living of the life between the husband on the one hand and the lover on the other, the pain of the life being lived under social and personally emotional compulsions, falling in love at a very late stage in life and the resulting dilemma as well as its impact, their quest for love, two ladies in love with the same man, and women in search of their identity in spiritual sense etc. She provides a voice and idiom to the entire generation of youths of the contemporary time on these issues. She has, in this endeavour, also tried to recast quite fictionally some prominent and debatable mythological characters in the light of new thinking. She has also tried to appropriate them in new contexts. In short, her novels reconstruct the common experiences of life and its challenges in the present times.