Since time immemorial pandemics and epidemics have found their way into human life and have brought substantial changes to it. They have deep effects on human existence. From prehistoric times to the current period, many writers have projected these crises in their literary works. Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Albert Camus’s The Plague, from western literature and Suryakant Tripathi Nirala’s memoir, A Life Misspent, Tagore’s Chaturanga from Indian literature are examples of such literature that portray the impact of pandemics on the humans and society, and also underline the resilience of human minds to tackle them. One such contemporary work that depicts the sorrows of the pandemic-stricken society is Amish Tripathi’s Shiva trilogy. This paper will focus on the pandemic depicted in Tripathi’s fiction and analyse how the people are affected physically and psychologically by it. The paper aims to study how diseases impact the subconscious mind of humans and further lead them to perpetual insanity regarding their existence in the universe. It explores how people survive amidst such pandemics and seek ways to heal themselves. The paper will also study the social, physical and psychological underpinnings of the society and an individual with a special reference to Tripathi’s Shiva trilogy.

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Keywords: Indian Literature, Pandemics, Shiva Trilogy, Society.