English Confluence By CL Gautam

The Fire on the Mountain Anita Desai Introduction- Fire on the Mountain is a  novel of 1977  by Anita Desai, an Indian writer. Desai has been recognized three times on the Booker Prize short list and is a British Guardian Prize winner. Fire on the Mountain received a Sahitya Akademi Award. Nanda Kaul-  The novel  focuses on an elderly widow’s isolation and loneliness, as it tells the story of Nanda Kaul who lives in Kasauli and leads a solitary existence. The old woman, Nanda, lives alone in a colonial house on a hill. She lets no one intrude ( enter) in her isolated life. She had spent many years caring for her husband, their children, and many grandchildren.She is an intelligent woman, widow of a university vice-chancellor  In the narrative present, she is at the end of her life and wants nothing more than to be left alone in her remote house, Carignano, where she sought to hide from her past and find inner peace through isolation and detachment from human rel...