A motif is a recurrent, distinctive or dominant theme that surfaces in the writing of a literary artist. There are several motifs like loss of identity, emotional instability, culture conflict, psychological crisis, economic deprivation, alienation, racial discrimination, rootlessness of diaspora and so on. It is alienation for Anita Desai; marital discord for Nayantara Sahgal; economic deprivation for Mulk Raj Anand; rootlessness of diaspora for Jhupma Lahiri ...
