Indian Motifs in the Works of Hedayat

Hedayat visit to India in the year 1936 resulted in the publication of his seminal work The Blind Owl. The book is a mirror that depicts Indian motifs in its literary perspective.
The towns of India like Kengri, Bombay, Benaras and Somnathpur are mentioned in his writings such as Sampingue, Lunatic and The Blind Owl. The Indian motifs enrich the writings of Hedayat and rendered it exotic among the Persian readers in Iran and abroad. The serpent, yogi, temple, temple-dancer, poisonous-wine, starving-beggar, lotus flower, snake charmer, anglicized Bengali girl and colonial cities of the sub-continent are some of the prominent motifs in the writings of Hedayat. Though they constitute the ethos of every day Incredible India but their fabrics go into the making of fascinating tapestry of Hedayat’s fictions.