Rangan’s Narcissistic Personality Disorder in Rajam Krishnan’s When the Kurinji Blooms.

Abstract

Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) psychologically deals with an individual may be grandiose or self-loathing, extraverted or socially isolated, unable to maintain steady employment, and prone to antisocial activities. This disorder people always tries to gather others attention towards them for showing their superiority. When the Kurinji Blooms novel tells about the five generations of the family and the Nilgiri Badugas life. This people lives their life with nature and their own traditional values. They are far away from the materialistic ideas. But in this novel, the character of Rangan, Krishnan and Jogi are brought up from the same soil. How Rangan gets deviate from his values and what makes him to become NPD person and how does he suffer from this NPD in every track of his life and it expresses through the compare and contrast of other two characters Krishnan and Jogi.

The mind of a narcissist is like a sports utility vehicle. It is great to be in the      driving seat, but fellow motorists must watch out, lest a collision with this mobile fortress demolish their more humble hatchbacks.

                                                -Sedikides et al. (2004), (p.412).