A Tale of Tragic Lives: Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People

Abstract

Animal's People is analyzed in this study with the purpose to present the real picture of
sufferings of human lives due to the gas leakage accident occurred in Bhopal on 1984
through Indra Sinha's point of view, but with a positive prospect towards life. Indra
Sinha, who is a prominent Commonwealth Writer addresses the novel to the victims of
the 'Bhopal Gas Disaster'. Besides, the picture of their tragic lives it also uncover
perspectives like an identity crisis, justice, corporate humanities, limitations of laughter
and so on. The text is analyzed with the objective to show the tragic situation of those
people who live every single day in the poisonous/dead atmosphere of Sinha's fictional
city, Khaufpur yet not lose their hope for a step towards a better life. Additionally, the
study shows the power of positive attitude of human life that helps to change the
narrator of the novel from a pessimistic person into an optimistic one through Sinha's
tale of tragic lives.