Pigeons At Daybreak Response

Anita Desai’s, Pigeons at Daybreak, exposes and unveils the pride that Desai has for her beloved and native country, India.  She opens the door and ushers in the reader to an alien world.  Desai virtually eliminates the 8,000+ miles that lie within a plethora of terrains and countries that separate the United States and India.  She shows her affection for her country, by allowing a reader to truly experience a fragment of the life of an Indian.  This permits the reader to recognize that despite the miles that lay between them and the differences in language, culture and beliefs, they are really no different from one another.  They both live, day to day with obstacles and circumstances over which they have no control.  Desai has taken a chisel to the barrier between people from opposite corners of the world that has been building because of the miles between them.  She ultimately shows that people more alike than they think and she displays this through her telling of the Basus.  This story is just one of a myriad of global narrations, whose purpose is to eliminate distances and reveal cultural similarities.  Authors of global narratives, relate their culture through a story that all people can relate to.