The shadow bride critical essays

Ghosh primarily focuses on the meaning of political freedom in the modern world and the force of nationalism. One might struck by the complexity of themes, destiny of narrative texture, or use of language in The Shadow Lines.

Since the central concern of the novel is not what happened, but the meaning of what had happened, and the meaning emerges only when the past and present are considered together, the narrative does not have a linear sequence.

Ghosh in The Shadow Lines not only gives the readers the idea of nationalism but questions the so-called nationalism. The fundamental nationalism also emerged from the character of the narrator's grandmother. She is a fundamental nationalist and wants freedom.

The narrator gives an incident of Jammu and Kashmir when Mu-i-Mubarak believed to have been the heir of Prophet Mohammad himself was lost. In Kashmir the riots did not breaks out. The situations though was very tense and volatile, did not have any effect on the health of the people.