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Deconstruction - Karma ( Khushwant Singh )

Summary:
"Mohan Lal was a middle-aged man who worked in the British Raj. He was
ashamed to be an Indian and hence he tried to speak in English or in Anglicized
Hindustani and to dress as if a high-ranked British official. He used to fill the
crossword puzzles of newspapers, which he did to show his immense knowledge
in English. His wife Lachmi was a traditional Indian woman and due to this
difference they were not having a sweet married life.
The important event occurred on a journey of Mohan Lal and Lachmi in a train.
Mohan Lal made her sit in the general compartment and arranged his seat in first
class compartment, which was meant for British. There he saw two British
soldiers who tried to abuse him. When the arrogant Mohan Lal tried to oppose,
he was thrown out of the train. He could only look through the rails on the moving
train."
Analysis:
The story is under deconstruction theory because the ending is different from
what the character and the reader expected it to happen. Mohan Lal is a
confident and a well-bred Indian man who mastered Oxford accent in his English
and he has a lot of stuffs to attract people about his English-cultured everything.
He and the reader's thought that everything will come to his way but it ended the
way that he was humiliated by his most admired British culture. Who would have
thought that he would be be thrown out from the train?

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