Globalization and its Discontents with reference to Viveka Shanbhag’s Riding the Tiger (original) (raw)

International Journal of Multifaceted and Multilingual Studies, 2016

Abstract

The successful stories of Viveka Shanbhag, who has published five collections of stories, revolve around gigantic Hydro-electric projects, MNCs and the globalised IT industry. Nirvana, for instance, narrated in a comic-ironic mode, shows how the MNCs obliterate all distinctions like caste, language and nationality of their employees. Whereas Kantu is centred on a village about to be submerged in the huge reservoir being built, Huli Savari depicts the way management-trainees are taught how to make huge profits in far-flung and backward countries. In fact, the title of the story Huli Savari, which means ‘to ride a tiger’, can be considered a metaphor for most of his stories: once one is after money, it is like riding a tiger; one can neither continue to ride nor get down from the tiger’s back.

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