Anita Nair’s handling of Regionalism in her novel ‘The Better Man’

ABSTRACT: Anita Nair is a prominent contemporary Indian writer in English, who is chiefly concerned with human relationship and the evolution of Indian society. She is a well known novelist from Kerala and one of the finest writers in Indian Writing in English with international reputation. She is a gifted writer with the language of technical efficiency, curiosity, intensity of feeling and attitude of commitment.Among her novels, The Better Man, The Ladies Coupe and Mistress gave her the place as a powerful writer. Her first novel, The Better Man tells the story of Mukundan, a recently retired government employee, beset by bitterness and self doubt, who returns reluctantly to his tyrannical father and his ancestral Tharavadu in the village of Kaikurussi.Highly specific regionalism and general Indian cultural markers are very aptly appearing in her first novel „The Better Man‟.