Analysis Of R. K. Narayanan's The English Teacher

In R.K.Narayanan’s The English Teacher Susila is a wife of Krishna, she was affected by Typhoid. So she taken treatment, that time her father ready to pay RS.500 to medical expenses to her and her mother uses some spiritual actions for her daughter’s cure from Typhoid. Susila’s mother goes to temple at evening which is near & prayed God for her daughter. Susila’s mother brigs few things from temple for Susila like scared ash & vermilion are smear that on her daughter’s forehead. Later Mrs. Rajora advice to her daughter and explain about her fasting and japa’s for Ishita. She said to her daughter be faithful on God, he never allowed you to suffer. The faith is most important aspect of devotion.
“Nonsense. Keep faith in God. He will not let
In Indian culture underproductive wife is rejected by husband’s family and divorced her. Most of the underproductive wives are faced the divorce, few exception peoples are adopted an orphanage child. After the injected of Ishita’s her husband sperm treatment to make her conceive, this is the last chance to her to live with husband. So she prayed God sincerely. “Prayers, prayers, more prayers. Please stay, please grow. You are my only chance of happiness. So many people to love just come into the world. I beg you” (Custody-64).

Indian’s are strong believers of Karma, it is also known as fate. It is made up by our
Pre- birth sins. After the failure of child treatment to Ishita hate her life and spoke to her mother like below. “This is my karma. Nothing will break it” (Custody-65). Ishita explain the term karma to her daughter Roohi in motherly manner. “It is our Karma that joins us.’
‘What’s karma?’
‘Destiny. Nobody can change it” (Custody-314). Even Raman also told the same concept later part of the novel. He also explain about her daughter illness to his son he mention few indirect words about fate that is “Well, beta, not everything is in our hands”
The Hindu peoples are also searching a solution at the same time check their own horoscope and try to clear the horoscope problems in some remedies. As it is Mrs.Rajora done few works for her daughter welfare.
“Next week Mrs.Rajora dragged her daughter to the astrologer. There is a child in her hand, he said , after turning her palm over several times, scrutinizing it carefully by the light of a lamp ” ( Custody-68).
The astrologer suggests some remedy to Ishita that is “A stone. She has to wear a white stone-pearl or moon stone-to counteracts the influence of the moon. It has to be two carats, and get the setting such that it touches her skin. It has to be made correctly, only then will it work” (Custody-68). When human beings are affected most stress that time they believed God and neighbors gave suggest to met Saint or Astrologer in India. The same thing held in Raman life, when he applies for divorce from his wife and his mother’s friend gave idea to send astrologer to his mother. “I sent them to my astrologer. Things happened so quickly, I don’t know…”