Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya is about the life of an Indina peasant women who struggle as face the famine and poverty that gripped Indian during the period of British Rule. The narrator was value quiet and peace as live in the village, she care other than beside the wealth and she value of free. .
In addition it showed us that the narrator prefer to live in the village that as the town. "As for living in a town-if town this is why, there is nothing I would fly from sooner if I could go back go the sweet quiet of village life (pg70)". For this reason as live in the village she can fell more comfortable with the peace and quiet place, no involved in the society problem. Also living in the village she may feel safer, while in town, and she can spend her time digging, and planting and watering her farm. Another in the village she can rest from the noise and bustle of the town.
Another these stories the narrator try to give the evidence that she care the poor than the wealth "no man think of another but shames only for his money". For example, the rich landowner and white man have the power and the money to govern the village; they must suffer the hardships of life, and oppression from the landowners. The rich do no care about the well being of their poorer tenant. The wealth are concerned only with how much work the village are able to do, and how much they are going to profit from their labors.
Also we has realize that the narrator care and feel sorry fro the wives of the Muslim life. "I felt desperately sorry for them, deprived of the ordinary pleasures of knowing warm sun and cool breeze upon their flesh of walking out light and free or of mixing with men and working beside them" (pg72). As we knowing the belief among of Indian was women place was in the house, bringing up children, prepare meal, keeping house and maintaining religious and cultural tradition. They can have anything like money, clothes and gold but they didn't have the freedom.