REVELATION OF FAMILIAL RELATIONSHIP IN UPAMANYU CHATTERJEES THE LAST BURDEN

India is a museum of languages and literatures and Indian Writing is an experience of its people, their culture, tradition, and the way they lead their life. The distinct quality of this Literature rests on multi – lingual, multi – cultural and multi – racial. The intercourse of Indian Literature with other Indian languages and dialects enriches the true essence of the treasure of fiction immensely and as the same, western cultures, Literatures, traditions, and aesthetics are also placing their position to withstand the role of fiction. Upamanyu Chatterjee is a great voice in Indian Postcolonial Literature. His novels always try to dig the truth of society in this way or the other. His second novel, “The Last Burden” (1993) recreates life in an Indian middle class family at the end of the Twentieth Century and through which the writer probes the relationship of father and son, husband and wife under the rays of modernity. He has tried to represent the modern world with different eye where growth and progress runs parallel with death, decay and alienations of one own self. It also illustrates the struggle of the newer generations in order to move into a nuclear family structure from a strictly hierarchical joint family structure where the elders have an even more elderly person who dedicates the terms, having two fold structure of patriarchy of the Indian society, the State and family. This paper tries to elucidate the destructive relationship between father and mother, between the mother and her two sons, between the father and his two sons, and the elder son’s wife and finally, between the elder son and his wife, pointing unmistakably to the existence of a family that is pitted against itself.