B.A. FIRST YEAR THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY CHAPTER- 11 THE YELLOW FISH BY AMBAI NOTES

AMBAI

Ambai's real name is CS Lakshmi. She was born in a middle class Brahmin family in 1944 in palghat, Madras which is now in Kerala. She was the third child of her parents. when the third child to happen to be a daughter the family was very visible upset because it was an unplanned pregnancy and ambai's birth was an accident. 

Her Father Did Not Like She. But Her Mother Always Support To Her.Ambai Was Put In Tamil Medium School As Against The English Medium One To Which Her Elder Siblings Went. She Was Begin Writing At The Age Of 16 She Had Won The First Prize In A Competition Organised By The Journal Kannan.Har Entry “Nandi Malai Charalile” A Novel Was Published Shortly After She Won The Competition. This Nobel Appeared Under The Name Ambai. She secured a UGC fellowship and took admission in JNU for her PhD and moved to Delhi in 1967

The Yellow Fish

It is the short story of ambai's writing which shows gender discrimination in our society. The narrator divided this story into three section In the first section we are given a description of the fishing boats returning a sure are discarded fish struggle to survive reminds the narrator of a similar struggle she witnessed some time back.We Take A Leap Into The Recent Past And Are Transported To The Next Section Of The Story Where We Get To Know That A Couple Anu And Arun Have Recently Lost The New Born Child From The Head Cold Jalaja The Child's Ashes Have Been Immersed In The Sea.

In The Third Section The Narrator Annu Understandable Depressed Helps A Discarded Yellow Fish To Survive And Returns It To The Sea There Is No Obvious Linkage Between The Two Events Except For The Fact That Both From Part Of The Experiences Of The First Person Narrator Annu