Arun Joshi is a truly exceptional novelist who stands apart from the rest of the novelists, having tackled the themes of the human plight in almost all of his novels. The overarching and outstanding quest in all of his novels is to find concrete direction and meaning in one's life. Joshi was influenced by existentialist thinkers like Camus, Sartre and this can be observed in his novels. Existentialism is a modern philosophical movement concerned with human disillusionment and desperation that originated in the philosophical and literary writings of Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Joshi has elaborately handled the struggles of a sensitive soul making its way through formidable difficulties within itself and surrounding social situations, towards self-fulfillment. According to Lionel Trilling, the novel is a perpetual search for reality and one of the most effective agents of our imagination. The Indian novel in English has now become an integral part of Indian English. Between the 1920s and 1950s the themes of English Indian novels were mostly depicted on national movements for political independence. After independence, most English Indian novelists shifted their attention from nationalistic zeal to the search for new themes and their representation. They began to outline their works and began the individual's search for "self". One such important contemporary Indian novelist is Arun Joshi. Arun Joshi has pioneered the exploration and implementation of new themes in his novels. Through his novels he takes readers to unknown and unexplored regions. He mainly focused on the deeper layers of the human being. His novels explore more of the protagonist's suffering from the same illness, dilemma, discontent and frustrations. ...... half of the paper ......ish Studies in India 3 (1988): 112-122.3. Bhatnagar, M. K. The novels of Arun Joshi: a critical study. New Delhi: AtlanticBooks, 2001.4. Iyengar, K. R. Srinivasa. Indian writing in English. New Delhi: Sterling, 1984.5. Joshi, Arun. The stranger. London: Asia Publishing House, 1968.6. Gupta, G. S. Balarama (ed.) Studies in Indian Fiction in English. Gulbarga: JIWEPublications, 7.1987. Meithei, M. Mani. Arun Josh's World of Social Concern. Trans. Judith Marsh.London: Dale Publishers, 2007.8. Pandey, Mukteshwar. Mukteshwar. Arun Joshi: The existentialist element in his novels. Delhi: BR Publishing, 2003.9. Rajan, B. "Indian Virtue", The Journal ofCommonwealth Literature, September 1965.10. Rajan, B. Too long in the West. New Delhi: Jaico Publication, 11.1961. Venkateswara Rao, J. “The Stranger: An Existential Dilemma.” Triveni 64.1-2(1995): 73-76.