B.A. FIRST YEAR THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY CHAPTER- 11 THE YELLOW FISH BY AMBAI NOTES

AMBAI

Ambai's real name is CS Lakshmi.
She was born in a middle class Brahmin family in 1944 in palghat, Madras 
which is now in Kerala. She was the third child of her parents. when the 
third child to happen to be a daughter the family was very visible upset 
because it was an unplanned pregnancy and ambai's birth was an 
accident. 
Her Father Did Not Like She. But Her Mother Always Support To Her.
Ambai Was Put In Tamil Medium School As Against 
The English Medium One To Which Her Elder Siblings Went.
She Was Begin Writing At The Age Of 16 She Had Won 
The First Prize In A Competition Organised By The Journal 
Kannan.Har Entry “Nandi Malai Charalile” A Novel Was Published 
Shortly After She Won The Competition. This Nobel 
Appeared Under The Name Ambai. 
She secured a UGC fellowship and took admission in JNU for her PhD 
and moved to Delhi in 1967

The yellow fish

It is the short story of ambai's writing which shows gender 
discrimination in our society.
The narrator divided this story into three section
In the first section we are given a description of the fishing boats 
returning a sure are discarded fish struggle to survive reminds the 
narrator of a similar struggle she witnessed some time back.
We Take A Leap Into The Recent Past And Are 
Transported To The Next Section Of The Story Where 
We Get To Know That A Couple Anu And Arun Have 
Recently Lost The New Born Child From The Head Cold 
Jalaja The Child's Ashes Have Been Immersed In The Sea.
In The Third Section The Narrator Annu 
Understandable Depressed Helps A Discarded Yellow 
Fish To Survive And Returns It To The Sea There Is No 
Obvious Linkage Between The Two Events Except For 
The Fact That Both From Part Of The Experiences Of 
The First Person Narrator Annu

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