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Every writer tries to bring his or her own philosophy of life and convictions into his/her creation" said Ashapurna Devi. Noi-Chhoi occupies a very significant place in her writings because it narrates the typical happenings of the middle-class Bengali families but is special so far as its technique is concerned. She focuses her attention on the six girls and their families. Being educated and conscious, they are modern and open in their outlook. That is why ...
Set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Ashapurna Debi's widely acclaimed Pratham Pratisruti, translated as The first promise, attempts to commemorate the struggles and efforts of women, of the mute domestic space, starkly neglected by history. This book, about one of the many unknown women from the ignored interiors of Bengal, also captures the larger social and cultural transformations of the colonial era. In a deceptively easy, ...
This selection of fifteen stories by five exceptional Bengali women writers looks at the lives of women who are neither stars nor martyrs in the feminist cause: The are voices, individual and particular, of women leading their everyday lives, nursing their joys and sorrows. These women write out of their bodies and the intimate spaces around them; they write the history and mathematics of their lives; they compose deeper reality; they give us an atmosphere, a ...