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Digital Age, Modernity, and the Persistence of Humanist Values in Sudha Murty's Literary Works

Authors: Karvande, Vilas Kashinath;

Digital Age, Modernity, and the Persistence of Humanist Values in Sudha Murty's Literary Works

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Abstract: Sudha Murty occupies a peculiar and powerful space in contemporary Indian letters. She is an engineer, philanthropist, corporate matron, supremely readable storyteller and Member of Parliament. As India has surged into the digital age, propelled by IT, neoliberal reforms, and mass migration to urban centres, Murty's fiction and short narratives have continued to champion a recognisably humane ethics: dignity for the ordinary, empathy as a practice, and education as emancipation. This paper examines Sudha Murty's works (post-2000), situating them within India's social and technological transformations, to explore how her humanist commitments adapt, persist, or strain under the pressures of modernity. Using close readings of representative novels and story-collections alongside contextual socio-cultural analysis, I argue that Murty's writing performs two linked moves: first it updates a moral repertoire for a digitally connected India - teaching readers how to remain humane when lives are mediated by screens, slippages of class mobility, and corporate logics and second it sometimes flattens structural critique into moral example, raising critical questions about the limits of literary humanism in addressing systemic injustice. The paper contends that Sudha Murty's work is vital not because it dissolves the tensions of modernity, but because it insists, often stubbornly, that human values remain necessary guides for everyday life in India's techno-modern present.

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Digital age, Modernity, Human values.

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