The fact that they are no longer obliged to keep the following chapters also makes it clear in a beautiful way. This tradition still remains.
And the society still sees those who do not follow this tradition with those eyes. Subarnalata was a heroine. He has struggled with self-respect till his death. Ashapurna Devi is a Bengali novelist and poet from India. Read Unliimed online Bengali Books from gobanglabooks.
Bengali writers popular books are available in the website. Stay Connected and read your favourite Books. Subarnalata by Ashapurna Debi is a popular book which is written by Ashapurna Devi. Ashapurna Devi is Bengali novelist and poet of India. She was born in 8th January in Calcutta and Died in 13th July This search comes in the form of struggle against the existing patriarchal social structures which deny the existence of women as an individual, a free entity and significantly different from their so-called social guardians, who are the representatives of the patriarchy.
She searches for her creative space to express her locked up desires and to come out of her social cage. Wollstonecraft In her treatise of Modern Feminism Mary Wollstonecraft has clearly pointed out the position of a woman in a society which is patriarchal in all respects. She should conform to all the rules constructed by her fathers and forefathers to become a chaste and obedient subordinate, and if she is beautiful, then all her accomplishments become useless, for she inevitably becomes the subject of male gaze, an item to be enjoyed sexually or caged in the inner-chamber for handsome future.
From the very inception of the social system woman is treated as a product, which is subject to the acknowledgement and approval of the patriarchal system. They are relegated to the silenced corner of the inner house, in the kitchen or bedroom and denied their basic demand to establish themselves as an individual entity. Caught in these polarities of goddess and monster, a woman, who is not exposed to education or enlightenment, has no choice but to live a bovine life under the pressure of patriarchy.
The feminist movement tries to address this politics of privilege by questioning the patriarchal ethos and consequently fights for establishing the female space, where these caged souls can breathe freely and live their own life as an individual.
A woman, as she is, the dark corner of the households is allotted for her. Woolf writes: She was as adventurous, as imaginative, as agog to see the world as he was. But she was not sent to school. She had no chance of learning grammar and logic… She picked up a book now and then…But her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew and not moon about with books and papers. She has promised her dead mother that she will write their story first, her mother, her grandmother.
Tomar pure jaoa, hariye jaoa lekha, na- lekha sob ami khuje baar korbo, sob kotha ami notun kore likhbo. Diner aalor prithibike janiye jabo andhakoarer boba jantronar itihas. Subarnalata Her endeavour rewrites the stories of Satyabati and Subarnalata and ends with her novel way of positing herself in the matrilineal line.
Subarnalata was introduced to the endless struggle of the women to establish their unnamed identity amidst a patriarchal culture by her mother Satyabati. From her childhood, she was initiated to the essential education of being a human being, not a woman. This going against the grains of the social norms sowed the seed of humanism in Subarnalata, with which she tried to judge every custom, be it social, religious or personal, in her later conjugal life and raised her voice of protest against the sexual politics inherent in them.
Her untimely marriage came as a disaster to her life. Satyabati protests this by abandoning her family and going to Kashi Beneras. Subarna had to painfully bear this daring act of her mother throughout the rest of her life with occasional taunting and tongue-in- cheek comments from her in-laws.
But what Satyabati could do was quite impossible for Subarna, the next generation. Chandreyee Niyogi writes: Satyabati does not strike us as a woman of flesh and blood. Ashapurna had conceived Satyabati as the instrument of her fierce battle, and an eloquent advocate of her own indictment of gender discrimination. But, she was not favored and her history was naturally like any other Bengali housewife.
Subarnalata protested in her own way by choosing the oddest bedroom for her. Though the other members of her family considered her a crack, Subarnalata succeeded in transcending the earthly desires of getting a home.
Despite all these frustrations, her search for her own space continues. She got her intellectual stimulation from the writings of Rabindranath. Jaya didi supplied her with books and magazines through the small hole in the wall. But her little space within the printed lines was devastated by her husband and she was compelled to go to the labour room several times.
Quite unlike the other sister-in-laws, who conformed to the laws of patriarchy and performed the duties of the family like good house wives, Subarnalata demanded a different atmosphere within this social structure, where the woman will get the status to stand beside men in equal rights.
Noyto emon ekta kichu kando kore bosche ja dekhe stombhito hoye jacche loke.
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