Kiran Nagarkar’s novels are unique and varied in its nature. They are not only narrative experiments but also windows into his philosophy of life. His prominent and outstanding works such as Seven Sixes Are Forty Three, Ravan and Eddie, Cuckold, God’s Little Soldier and Jasoda reflect his enquiry into existence, morality, history and human contradictions. Nagarkar’s philosophy of life is an embrace of complexity, rejection of dogma and insistence on human resilience and compassion amidst chaos. Nagarkar’s broader philosophy of life reflects through humanism where he upholds compassion and empathy despite irony and satire. Nagarkar believes that life is contradictory: comic yet tragic, spiritual yet sensual, oppressive yet liberating. Nagarkar resists ideological rigidity in religion, politics, arts or others spheres of life. His works question traditional authority of patriarchy, monarchy or organized religion. In Nagarkar’s novels, life is not about the perfection but about survival with dignity, laughter and awareness.