28, February 2025

Loud Silence, Left Unheard: Understanding Egoistic Suicide of Amar in Anees Salim’s The Blind Lady’s Descendants

Author(s): V. Yogeswari

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Independent Researcher, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu

DOIs:10.2018/SS/202502007     |     Paper ID: SS202502007


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Anees Salim’s The Blind Lady’s Descendants is a poignant fictional tale that weaves many contemporary themes through the narrative of a twenty-six-year-old narrator Amar. One of the many intriguing subjects is the unhealthy relationship between parents that create a huge void in the hearts and lives of their children. The author who subtly introduces characters and pictures their relationships, portrays the mismatched couple in impressive ways. The scope of this paper is to showcase how Amar’s parents were more like individuals than as a couple and how this attitude has impacted Amar personally and socially. However, this paper is limited to major focus on Amar among other children of the couple. It is Amar who chooses not to live anymore and this paper attempts to cull out the reason behind it, with Durkheim’s theory of suicide working in the background. Through a study of Amar’s behaviour, it is clear that his case falls under what Durkheim calls as egoistic suicide, which is a result of deteriorated social and familial relationships. This paper has aimed to put into limelight how the inefficiency in parenting can also be the grave cause of unpleasant consequences, and not the only one.

blindness, communication, influence, marriage, suicide

V. Yogeswari(2025); Loud Silence, Left Unheard: Understanding Egoistic Suicide of Amar in Anees Salim’s The Blind Lady’s Descendants, Shikshan Sanshodhan : Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences,   ISSN(o): 2581-6241,  Volume – 8,   Issue –  2.,  Pp.48-50.        Available on –   https://shikshansanshodhan.researchculturesociety.org/

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