RAKA’S EXISTENTIAL GROWTH FROM DEPERSONALITY TO TRANSPERSONALITY IN ANITA DESAI’S FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN

Anita Desai is well recognized as an existentialist who in most of her fictions speaks human predicament and specifically the existential crisis women. In Fire on Mountain, Raka, one three central figures, gets unique active contribution to ultimate action, unparallel gravity mystic air character. A.H Tak, a critique Desai, has redefined Roger Wescott’s categorization ‘impersonality’ by indicating at split personality that Desai’s heroines experience their lives. Though Nanda Kaul character Raka supersedes end novel when she sets fire mountain. this regard ,the present paper attempts identify Raka’s shift from state another wants show how being plain raises height completes spiritual growth.