Narrative Technique in A Handful of Rice

ABSTRACTThe novelist, Kamala Markanday, was born in Mysore in 1924. She was admitted in MadrasUniversity at the age of sixteen. She went to England in 1948, but was unproductive inattainment of a job as a journalist. She was awarded the National Association of IndependentSchools Award (USA) in 1967 and the Asian Prize in 1974.As a matter of fact, the narrative technique in Kamala"s novels is exceptionally fine. Theauthoress describes the illusory world she has created. She tells us everything about hercharacters. We unmistakably feel their behaviour, thoughts, feelings, psychology etc. She hascreated a set of characters about whom she is expected to know everything, but the humanpsychology is so multifaceted that it is unattainable for one person to know everything about anassemblage of characters even though he himself has created them. She competently fulfils thisresponsibility here.The describing in this novel is in the third person. The novel has unexpected commencement,even narration, practicality, lyrical gorgeousness etc.So the research paper would undertake to elucidate the technique of the telling of this novel.