The Narrative Design in Khushwant Singh’s I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale

The wide, extensive, social and political presentation is the essence of the narrative design of I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale. Surely it is primarily a drama of two families but it indeed, goes far beyond the boundaries of family life in portraying phases and changes in social and political situations and their motivations. The basic theme as interlinked with symbol in the narrative design, is that of love as a solvent of the problems of life, human, social, cultural and political. A defined corpus has been selected from the novel which comprises some fictional conversations and narrative pieces, subsequently analysed from a critical and literary perspective.