Justify the significance of the title clear light of the day.

The reference to illumination, the "clear light of day" refers to the lighting of the way of reconciliation once all the misunderstandings and long-held emotional barriers have been cleared out of the way. Desai achieves this through the implementation of a stream-of-consciousness technique that affords multiple viewpoints capable of shining the light of objective truth on individual events that recur through different subjective memories. The impact of the past upon the present is thematically presented in the structure of the four-part narrative. The present is introduced in the first part and takes place in the late 1970s, while Part Two transports the reader back to the year of Indian independence, 1947. The third section of the book goes back even further in time in order to show how the way children perceive the world around them can have lifelong consequences. Part Four traces the long decades of growth often required before insight is attained; finally, readers return to the novel’s present.