Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markanday

In Nectar in Sieve of Kamala Markanday, Rukmani is portrayed as an active woman and offers ideal patients and caregivers. Rukumani showed pain, strength and positive attitude throughout the book. After all blows, poverty, famine, her husband's faith, and her son's death, she accepted blows and progressed instead of spending a lot of time on this problem. The relationship between Lukmani and her husband Nathan is the center of her emotional life. When she learned that Nathan was sleeping with other women, she did not shout or shout to the man who betrayed her as most women did.

Kamala Markandaya introduces typical Indian lifestyle and culture in her novel "Nectar in Sieve". The theme detailed by the author at Sieve's Sieve is that hunger is the main driving force for people's lives. This motivation leads people to commit something to prevent starvation. Hunger is a well-known term and stage experienced by poor families. Every day is a new struggle for life and experience, and food is needed. Hunger for a novel is the driving force of many characters to endure various actions to gain food, from leaving a new land to prostitution. For example, Lukmani's sons Arjun and Tambi decided to go to Ceylon to find a better job than a tannery factory. "They pay a high price ... It is a good thing for us to work again, it is not appropriate for men to defile themselves with hunger or laziness" (71)

Honey in the sieve is a novel written by Kamala Markandaya in 1954. This book was founded in India at the time of intense urban development and is the record of marriage between the village chief's youngest daughter Rukmani and tennant farmer Nathan. Rukmani talks about the first person until years after her marriage at the age of twelve. Rukmani and Nathan love each other, and their marriage begins with relative calm and adequacy. When a large tilt factory was built in a neighboring village, it began to hide their lives. As the tannery factory got bigger and more prosperous, Rukmani and Nathan had trouble paying rent on the land that they fed the kids and gave their lives. Things are keeping getting worse but I quietly resigned from floods, famine, even death - difficult to grow and insisted on hope for a better future.