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The short story Karma by Khushwant Singh was written in 1950 by himself, 1950 marks the year 3 of India’s independence.
The story refers to some very important aspects of Indian society during the time that Britain was the major rule in India.
When Britain ruled over India, they were determined to be one of the biggest empires in the world and the Indians were very underprivileged.
The main character and our antagonist in the story is Sir Mohan Lal, he is a native Indian who thinks he’s British and is ashamed of the Indian culture.
Throughout the story we hear about how he creates a new Indian culture. The way we can profile Sir Mohan Lal as the antagonist is by feeling sorry for him because he obviously seems confused about his identity but he is also portrayed as the protagonist through the things he says in the story.
Karm a is short story that is about how men and women in India acts towards each other and how the culture segregates them further from each other.
The main character Lachmi is the traditional Indian woman, he wants to integrate her into his own culture.
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The author Khushwant Singh is trying to show the importance of identity, indifference, racism and injustice.
The identity theme comes through as how the main character Sir Mohan Lal thinks of himself as different than he is.
He thinks of himself as a British man and not an Indian man even though he is.
He tries to approach a new culture and, abandon his own culture and heritage and wanting to take on another heritage.
Throughout the story we learn how the main character Sir Mohan Lal has spent five years of his life in England and how that has drawn him in and made him adopt the ways of the English.
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