A Study of Political and Emotional Parallels in Post-IndependenceIndia with Reference to Nayantara Sahgal's Storm in Chandigarh

Abstract

Nayantara Sahgal's Storm in Chandigarh {1969} transforms the turbulence of post-independence politics into a mirror of private emotional disarray. Through irony, psychological realism, and multiple perspectives, Sahgal exposes how fractured personal relationships echo the fragmentation of
India's democratic ideals. Sahgal reveals how dysfunctional personal worlds correspond to the dysfunctional ideals of a democratic India. In seeing the connection between spousal battles in marriage, political rivalries in politics, and ethical disillusionment in ethics with a unified vision in a novel on power and patriarchy, this paper will proceed to interpret the themes in Sahgal's works using Jasbir Jain's feminist perspectives on Sahgal, Makarand Paranjape on the post Nehruvian politics of chaos in Indian politics, and R.K.
Dhawan on Sahgal's ironic narrative mode.