I am Madhabi

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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 bring’s together the stories of some remarkable women caught in the dilemmas of our ordinary lives. At the same time, Bhattacharya makes powerful comments on difficult issues such as poverty and corruption without sermonizing. These are stories that make us pause and reflect on how our day-to-day actions affect the environment we live in, by posing questions we cannot ignore.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jadu Saha

Dr. Jadu Saha, after his retirement from the Canadian Civil Service as a Director General began his literary career in 2001. His poems in English have been published in American anthologies and his short stories in Bengali in magazines in the US. His first poetry book, Whispers of Silence was published in Canada in 2001 and his other translated books include Songs of Rabindranath Tagore, The Flute: Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore’s Images of Women: Selected Poems, Rabindranath Tagore’s Portrait of Women: Selected Short Stories (Shipra Publications, Delhi).

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Title
I am Madhabi
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8189020250
Length
200p.
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