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One evening, when the city-jungle is teeming with life. Romita, a young housewife is molested by four young men near a crowded Metro Station. No one intervenes - except Jhinuk Sarkar, a schoolteacher. Suchitra Bhattacharya's award winning novel, now made into a thought provoking film by Rituparno Ghosh, Dahan is the story of two women's search for justice in a man's world. Romita's humiliating street encounter compels her to question the fragile nature of her ...
Chandan Ray Chowdhury, a high-ranking government officer and a respectable family man is hauled to the police station on the night of thirty-first December, along with prostitutes and ordinary criminals for what appears to be a trivial offence related to wine and women. We find that Chandan is no better than those caught on the wrong side of the law in his greed, prevarications and deceptions. Chandan's case is but one instance of a larger phenomenon: the ...
As a little girl, Suchitra Bhattacharya enjoyed making up stories and writing them down. After her graduation from Calcutta University and marriage, she returned to the world of writing in the 1970s. She didn’t take long to emerge as one of the most prominent writers in Bangla.Suchitra is a perceptive observer of the changing urban milieu and her writing closely examines the crises faced by the contemporary Bengali middle class. This winning collection ...
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 ...