Views of Realism in Bhabani Bhattacharya's So Many Hungers! and Music for Mohini

Bhabani Bhattacharya is rightly metaphorised as one of the four wheels of the Indian English novel chariot- the other three are Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao. His fictional contribution spreads over a period of about thirty years and consists of only six novels, viz. So Many Hungers! (1947), Music for Mohini (1952), He Who Rides a Tiger (1955), A Goddess Named Gold (1960), Shadow from Ladakh (1966), A Dream in Hawaii (1978), and a collection of short stories - Steel Hawk and Other Stories, which appeared in 1968. Bhattachrarya, in all of his novels, gives an account of the Indian way of life. He refers to various customs, conventions, superstitions and oddities present in the Indian society usually without commenting on their merits. The present study is a depiction of realism in his two novels- So Many Hungers! and Music For Mohini.