Militarisation, Nation building and Amnesia work in Romesh Gunesekera's story Fluke
Name- Mrinmoy Das Roll No. 95/ENG 200037 University of Kalyani Romesh Gunesekera's book Noontide Toll is written to depict the jeopardized situation of Sri Lanka and its inhabitants after the three decades long civil War between the Government of Lanka and LTTE. The novel is divided into 14 short stories and these stories are inter-linked with cach other by the affect of the war. These stories showcases the terror of war through the aid of memory. Vasantha the ubiquitous driver who is the binocular through which we the reader experience the violence at the moment of its occurence. “ Fluke ” takes place in the southern part of this novel where Gunesekera shows many Sri Lankan especially obsessed with the idea of marketing, entrepreneurship and using modern technology to promote them. In this answer we try to focus on the theme of amnesia, militarization, nation-building, and memory. Vasantha's every journey takes place with a passanger and...