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A Time to be Happy and Storm in Chandigarh are the two novels of Nayantara Sahgal. Her first novel A Time to be Happy is set against the background of Saharanpur, the very title of the novel is suggestive of socio-political consciousness in the year 1857. Written in the backdrop of post-independence era, with the locale as Saharanpur, a small town, the place was inhabited by a middle age man like the narrator in the novel. Sanad is the young hero of this novel. He is working in Selkrik and Lowe: he wants to leave his job as an officer in the firm. The narrator who breathes the social consciousness has taught her that “it was for her husband, she felt to rigid his action in the eyes of God. Like any good Hindu wife, she believed that his concern was with God and hers with God in him” (Sahgal 5). Sheela was the wife of his cousin, and Rohan Masi, the aunt was a matriarch and all of them adhered to an orthodox Hindu social consciousness; so for as the narrator himself was concerned.