The Endeavour for Civil Rights in Githa Hariharan’s ‘I Have Become the Tide’

This is a novel which lime lights on a long-established social problem which is endemic in the country. Several castes and religions are common in the diverse nature of our nation. The rituals and customs are the way of our living which is a part and parcel of our lies. Although India attained independence, develops in every field socially and economically in spite of that the evil deep rooted casteism in the mental attitude of man is not deviated and its consequences influence unpropitious on civil rights, education. existence and moral values of men. ‘I Have Become the Tide' is the anecdote of three different stories of unlike periods.