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While both sisters belong to the same surroundings, they derive their sentiments and motivations from different experiences. Women's role in societyīim and Tara are often compared to each other, and characters often express their opinion on one or the other based on their docility. She is constantly hurt by her siblings and needs to escape-this time, ironically, into the past. However, as the story progresses, one sees through chinks in Bim’s armor. Bim appears to be the only person who doesn’t want to escape her family. These three characters are propelled by the need to repress unpleasant memories of their childhood. Baba also tries to escape his immediate surroundings, albeit in a more unconscious manner, by constantly playing the same music on a loop. Raja starts inclining towards Islamic culture against his family’s wishes, Tara first seeks attention from Mira Masi and starts to spend more time with the Misra sisters, ultamtely marrying Bakul and leaving Old Delhi. This need is fuelled by the lack of attention they get from their parents. The Das siblings are constantly trying to escape their immediate surroundings. Bim witnesses the degradation of her widowed aunt in her house and the limitations of marriage, and she decides to live a life of independence. Tara is constantly dependent on her husband and others to make decisions for her. Raja, who was selfish and proud, becomes a rich, pompous man who is still trying to be the hero he idolized, Hyder Ali.

Their experiences in adolescence were responsible for their future selves, including their oft-tense relations with each other. The children were hardly ever cared for in their household, and so they constantly looked for affection from each other. While Bim and Raja as the eldest siblings were sure of themselves and ambitious, Tara and Baba were the least loved and grew up to be dependent-albeit in different ways- on others. AdolescenceĪ major part of the book is dedicated to the early years of the Das siblings and to how that period shaped their current lives. Desai suggests that family makes us who we are and that we should forgive those whom we love in order to achieve peace. Family is one of the few sustaining things in times of duress, and even though it is not perfect, it is worth investing in. Family is something from which one wants to escape, such as with Raja and Tara something that exasperates, angers, and confuses something that can be lacking, as with the Das parents and something that can be unlike what you thought it would be, as with the close relationship between Aunt Mira and the siblings, Bim's closeness with Baba, and Bim and Tara's realization that they are more alike and love each more deeply than they'd thought. FamilyĬlear Light of Day is primarily concerned with the Das family, but the Das siblings often compare their situation to that of other families such as the Alis and the Misras.

It is also important that their separation is not a product of some grievous circumstance, but rather due to their choices.

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Raja moves to Hyderabad to follow his hero, Hyder Ali Khan Saheb Tara marries out of desperation to leave her dysfunctional family and Bim and Baba remain in a house full of ghosts of their childhood. The characters live in Old Delhi, which could be considered as the better part of town, and thus they do not have to witness any violence of the partition however, the Partition ends up dividing the family to an extent anyway. Although the lead characters are not directly involved in the event, the partition affects their lives in subsequent years. Clear Light of Day is set during the India-Pakistan Partition of 1947.

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