Amrita finds a note under her pillow from her bhabi (her brother's wife), informing her that the family regards her friendship with the two young men as socially embarrassing. ĭuring a trip the three take together to Juhu Beach, Udayan falls from their boat during a tempest and is injured. For Udayan, love is contingent, an accidental matter. On that occasion, Udayan seemed to have brushed away Amrita's expression of affection, saying that what he desired from her was not so much her love as her understanding. Udayan had played a role in introducing Aniket to Amrita. Amrita had declared her love for him, but now Udayan observes that Amrita is growing partial to a lecturer in botany, Aniket. From their youth onward, Udayan has been an important formative influence, guiding Amrita to reach her intellectual goals. Udayan – a short-story writer and journalistĪmrita is awarded her doctorate, and her two friends Udayan and Aniket congratulate her on her achievement.The love triangle between these protagonists serves as an instrument with which to explore existentialism through narrative description of inner and outer experience as the three struggle to come to grips with the meaning of their lives. The novel depicts the inner and outer lives of three existentialist characters: two men, Aniket and Udayan and one woman, Amrita. Īmrita has been described as a reflective existentialist novel. Each section begins with a quote, respectively from Nietzsche, Maitreyi, and Gandhiji.
Spanning 18 chapters, the novel is divided into three sections: Prashnartha (The Question Mark), Pratibhav (The Response), and Niruttar (The Unanswered).