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Abstract
Vikram Seth’s second novel A Suitable Boy exhibits various aspects of the social lives, the blessings and the sufferings of the people part of the post independent India. Being a socially committed writer, Seth presents the major social problems exist in the present Indian society. The multicultural society is pictured through the fictional town Bramhapur, the setting of the novel. The novel centers on a traditional and cultural event of making arranged marriages for Indian higher caste girls. Through this cultural and familial issue, Seth exposes the communal disharmony between Hindus and Muslims which is instigated by the political intrigues of the post independent India, unlike the religious clashes exposed in Train to Pakistan by Kushwant singh. Several other issues corresponding issues related to family, such as Love, infidelity also finds its place in the novel.