ವಲಸೆ : ಅಸ್ತಿತ್ವದ ನಿರಸನ

Abstract

Migration is a process as old as human history. Human civilizations have not grown or existed without migration process, the important thing is that almost all of these migration processes in the history of man are part of being in search of existence in one way or other. Man tries to establish his existence in the place where he is. When it is not possible, he migrates to another place and tries to settle there to have his existential identity. If we look at another dimension of existence, it is seen that we leave the existing existence and migrate to another existence. The study tries to discuss through Kannada novels that in the process of establishing, sustaining and rediscovering existence in the modern era, though some migrants feel sense of existence, many migrants feel the sense of non-existence too. Many migrants who set out in search of existence establish the existence of the life they desire. And somemore migrants often fail to establish themselves in a multicultural environment and return unsatisfied. There are instances of people finding existence of life in their own land. Kannada literature records the fact that migrants who have migrated in search of existence, do not come with complete feeling of their existence in migrated land. They live in agony and confusion. Many reasons can be found for their cessation of existence. Loneliness in the land of migration, new culture, language, unknown people, insecurities, Alienation are discussed analytically by systematic study on the novels of Shivaram Karanta’s marali-mannige and Chigurida-kanasu .