This book isn't just a work of fiction but a written document about a society in which we still dwell today. will the world ever change.Īfter Shankar's "Chowringhee" and Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's "Aranyak" if there was any book by a Bengali author who had touched my mortal senses in a savoury note, it was "Srikanta" by Sharatchandra Chatterjee. The society just started stagnating and could only get worse unless their is a revolution.īut what made me think was that all that Sarat mentioned has been happening still so in a 100 years nothing has really changed, same disease & caste plagued society. How unmarried women tarnish family image and they are sold off for Rs 20 to men 10 times their age as wives.
He also mentions that how in India society treats its women seprately from the men.
you can see the double standards of the society & the people who claim to be the epitome of this society. When women love someone they give everything - when man loves them he expects everything.īeyond the man-woman relationship, Srikanta also talks about the gaps between rich & poor, ridiculous caste system, hollowness of Hindu society, fake brahmins, stinking traditions of dowry, widowhood, child marriage and cruel landlords. They all loved him selflessly and he valued them though he could love them as passionately as they did. Srikanta seems to be a slice of Sarat Chandra's own life & how the women in his life influenced him. From Kamal Lata, Abhaya, Rajlakshmi or Pyaari - all these women were how women should be - strong, caring, loving, religious, pious and pure. Srikanta goes on to narrate only those parts of his life where he met different women & how his life went by while he was watching these magnanimous women going about being virtuous & accomplished. Srikanta seems to be a slice of Sara Srikanta - though the name of the novel is on the male narattor but it should ideally be "Srikanta & his tryst with women'. Srikanta - though the name of the novel is on the male narattor but it should ideally be "Srikanta & his tryst with women'. Srikanta set the precedent for socially conscious writing in modern Indian literature.more Through his dynamic and arresting characters, Saratchandra brings alive nineteenth-century Bengal, a prejudice-ridden society that needed to be radically changed.
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He experiments with becoming a sanyasi, is bewitched for a while by the Vaishnavi, Kamal Lata, and wanders on till his directionless existence finally finds a focus-when he resigns himself to life with the notorious but stunning Pyari Baiji, breaking free of the social values he grew up with.
As a young man he travels to Burma looking for new experiences and meets the rebellious Abhaya-who rejects her violent, bigamous husband to live openly with her lover-and learns to question the hypocritical social norms that bind a woman down but let a man off. As a child, he idealizes the chaste Annada Didi-the epitome of selfless devotion to a worthless husband. Srikanta, the narrator, is an aimless drifter, a passive spectator who cannot survive without the support of an individual stronger than himself. As a child, he idealizes the chaste Annada Didi-the epitom Translated for the first time into English, Saratchandra's Srikanta was first published over seventy years ago and could perhaps be called the first modern Indian novel. Translated for the first time into English, Saratchandra's Srikanta was first published over seventy years ago and could perhaps be called the first modern Indian novel.
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