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Justify the title of the story Karma

Karma: by — Khushwant Singh

➣➣Justify the title of the story Karma.

Ans:     The name carries the identity of such a person or object. Literature is no exception. Because a literary work gets perfection only when its title is correct.

Karma, is the Hindu theological idea. It means the result of a person's deeds and its after effects. Anyway, the story is about an anglophile named Sir Mohan Lal. An anglophile is a person who is an admirer of England and the English people. Mr Lal yearns to leave his Indian origin behind and intimates English as closely as possible. Sir Mohan Lal was educated at Oxford, spoke english fluently and followed British culture. He tried his best to shun off his identity of an Indian and tried to prove himself to be an Englishman. He regarded Indians as indifferent, inefficient and dirty. Even he did not like his own wife, as she was a native woman. At last, his pride and pretention spelt his doom. He was thrown out by two British soldiers and they said him the black Indian. Thus, because of his ‘Karma’ — his false display of identity, his hatred towards his own culture, his ill-treatment of his wife — he made to see the ground reality at the end of the story. Finally, he realised that educated or illiterate, an Indian was a servant to the English. Sir Mohan with all his snobbery found himself rootless. He was neither an Indian nor an Englishman. He had no identity. He suffered the consequences of his own Karma; the nemesis claimed him. From this pouy of view the title of the story nicely epitomizes the theme. So the title is truly justified.

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