'The Crocodile's Lady': Analysis
Till the previous year the banyan tree recorded a greater impact of the spring. Then here stood a cluster of trees forming an ever-green fraternity and continuously swapping birds among themselves. During the last spring they had even managed to borrow a pair of cuckoos from the forest miles away.
The trees had been felled, one after another giving way to a “Military” Non-Vegetarian Hotel, a drug store, and a “Yoga and Massage” parlor.
The only portion of the building left unaltered was the room Ravi occupied. . . Its small balcony jutting out towards the meadow once overlooked small pool abounding in frogs. In his early days, when he would slowly fall asleep while browsing through Shakespeare, the croaking frogs would take over the command of his receding consciousness from the great dramatist. . . But the pool had been filled up, destroying the frogs or driving …show more content…
The death of Rajni due to over-alcoholism seems to be the divine penance for polluting the sanity of the village.
Das depicts the typical rustic scenery of India in “The Crocodile’s Lady” (The Crocodile’s). Dr. Batstone, the renowned sociologist from the West who comes from a “city of skyscrapers” (17) with a desire to experience a real Indian village. He reaches the narrator’s village crossing,
Miles and miles of marshland and sandy tracks; but nothing could disturb the calm quest of Dr. Batstone . . . After fifty miles the jeep had to be abandoned in favour of a bullock cart and when the cart got stuck in mud, we had to plod to reach our village. . . . That a hundred cattle would move through fenceless cornfields with absolute abstinence obeying a tiny tot’s hooting, was as fantastic as the Pied Piper’s magic. Wonderful was the huge rainbow, fantastic the revelation that ninety-seven percent of our villagers lived quite contented without having seen a locomotive or a cinema
The trees had been felled, one after another giving way to a “Military” Non-Vegetarian Hotel, a drug store, and a “Yoga and Massage” parlor.
The only portion of the building left unaltered was the room Ravi occupied. . . Its small balcony jutting out towards the meadow once overlooked small pool abounding in frogs. In his early days, when he would slowly fall asleep while browsing through Shakespeare, the croaking frogs would take over the command of his receding consciousness from the great dramatist. . . But the pool had been filled up, destroying the frogs or driving …show more content…
The death of Rajni due to over-alcoholism seems to be the divine penance for polluting the sanity of the village.
Das depicts the typical rustic scenery of India in “The Crocodile’s Lady” (The Crocodile’s). Dr. Batstone, the renowned sociologist from the West who comes from a “city of skyscrapers” (17) with a desire to experience a real Indian village. He reaches the narrator’s village crossing,
Miles and miles of marshland and sandy tracks; but nothing could disturb the calm quest of Dr. Batstone . . . After fifty miles the jeep had to be abandoned in favour of a bullock cart and when the cart got stuck in mud, we had to plod to reach our village. . . . That a hundred cattle would move through fenceless cornfields with absolute abstinence obeying a tiny tot’s hooting, was as fantastic as the Pied Piper’s magic. Wonderful was the huge rainbow, fantastic the revelation that ninety-seven percent of our villagers lived quite contented without having seen a locomotive or a cinema