Githa Hariharan's in Time of Siege: a Story of Conflicting Pursuits of an Intellectual Woman in the Era of Globalization

Indian English fictional writings are fortunate enough to have writers like Githa Hariharan who is more interested in the presentation of some of the social and moral issues of our society which are still persistent in different forms and disturb the intellectuals from time to time. Among her contemporaries, she is more enthusiastic in the portrayal of the contemporary events and incidents with microscopic observations. Almost all the novels of Githa Hariharan – The Thousand Faces of Night, When Dreams Travel, In Time of Siege, The Ghost of Vasu Master, Fugitive Histories, I Have Become the Tide, etc. are wonderful in creating a unique kind of initiative in terms of social documentation in Indian English writing. Githa Hariharan seems to be wonderful in composing novels related to social and moral issues.