Download or read book Lajwanti and Other Stories written by Mulk Raj Anand and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 1999 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lajwanti, Mulk Raj Anand focuses on a woman's predicament and struggle to find an identity for herself. Frustrated by a rigid pattern of social relationships, gender bias, religious bigotry and her own petty human foibles, her abject condition serves as a metaphor for sacrifice and servility which forms the thematic heart of these stories.