their concern for the protection of their tribes they were elevated to the level of divine beings. The immortals of Meluha, The Secret of Nagas and The oath of Vayuputras on the radical thought that all gods were once humans who lived in the ancient times because of their adventures, intellectual achievements, their love for their fellow humans and. Amish Tripathi has constructed his three novels. This paper analyses Amish Tripathi’s the more The Immortals of Meluha in relation to mythology. Their work is characterized by a self-reflexive acknowledgement of its status as fiction, and by the various ways in which it challenges readers to question common-sense and commonplace assumptions about literature. Designed for students and clearly written, this Introduction explains the preoccupations, styles and techniques that unite postmodern authors. It introduces the most prominent British and American novelists associated with postmodernism, from the ‘pioneers’, Beckett, Borges and Burroughs, to important post-war writers such as Pynchon, Carter, Atwood, Morrison, Gibson, Auster, DeLillo, and Ellis. Unlike most introductions to postmodernism and fiction, this book places the emphasis on literature rather than theory.
Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study.
Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses.
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