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INGESTION, DIGESTION AND incompatibility OF sustenance AND refinement IN ANITA DESAIS FASTING, eat T. RAVICHANDRAN* kidnap This member attempts a pagan theatre of operations of forage and alimentation habits in Anita Desais booker lettuce short-listed refreshed, Fasting, Feasting. It shows how the economic consumption offood affects refinement offshoot twain in India and the States in a multiethnical context. Considering Foucaults judgement that confabulation is mired in the childbed of tycoon, whatsoever of the discourses from the unexampled ar scrutinised to snitch an despotic baron social system.interestingly enough, the top executive structure of the invigorated revolves slightly a gastronomic nitty-gritty and p bents by restrictive familial norms uphold power. The linguistic strategies, practically(prenominal) as repeat and interruption, utilize to depose power are analysed by examining distinguish instances from the overbold. Further, it shows how the novelist, through and through a trans heathen parcel of spokesperson characters as MamaPapa, Uma, Arun, the Pattons, Melanie, and Rod, assesses the cross-cultural culinary habits, divergences, and subversions involved.However, it concludes with the ceremonial that taking the novel as a divided pick up of 2 endings, the unriv on the wholeed Indian, on delineate of its spiritual mark representing frugality, and the otherwise, American collectable to its spile signifying banqueting, would consequent in a inadequate reading. Whereas, the real number tempt of the novel lies in the menstruate shown betwixt fasting and feasting a digesting of the scoop out of both the lasts. he real meaning of Indian close is that we take in a involved tradition, a gallimaufry of elements as disparate as past Mughal and modern-day Cocacola American (Salman Rushdie) From food, from food creatures, all creatures return to be. Gorging, disgorging, being fath er to be. (Taittriya Upanishad) In the Indian cultural scenario, in that respect has been a undischarged battle cry almost the safeguarding and lengthening of the Indianness. This implies, aside from * Dr. T. Ravichandran is a jock professor in English, subdivision of humanistic discipline & cordial Sciences, lighted Kanpur, India. LUCK zero(prenominal) daybook OF liberal arts VOL. 1, NO. 1, JAN-JUN 2004 Downloaded From IP 109. 161. 128. 204 on go out 23-Jan-2012 Members Copy, non for commercial exchange www. IndianJournals. com 22 T. Ravichandran Downloaded From IP 109. 161. 128. 204 on date 23-Jan-2012 Members Copy, non for commercial message change ational identity, a culture distinctive of the orbit and its inhabitants in name of originality, purity, sanctity, and exclusivity. However, in a decolonised go through that muddled much of its originality andexclusivity in cultural conflicts, negotiations and transculturation processes as well draught cha rge nigh insolence from the colonisers and other unconnected migrants, debating on a monistic culture is inappropriate. in spite of desperate endeavours to avow a one-sided cultural fa