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She is all beauty —
this woman nude and terrible and black,
who tells the name of God
on the skulls of the dead,
who creates the bloodshed on which demons fatten,
who slays rejoicing and repents not,
and blesses him only that lies crushed beneath Her feet.
Her mass of black hair
flows behind Her like the wind,
or like time, ‘the drift and passage of things.’
She is blue almost to blackness, like a mighty shadow,
and bare like the dread realities of life and death.
Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland (2013) and Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others (2014), that embody this tendency: a universalization that, in fact, neither comprehends nor sympathizes with the social and political contradictions in contemporary South Asia.
Both novels place at the center of their narrative what is commonly referred to as the Naxalite movement, which began in 1967 with a peasant uprising in Naxalbari, a village in northern Bengal near the Nepal border. Initially led by armed members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the movement later broke away to form the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) and has largely followed Mao’s doctrine of “people’s war.” Begun in the countryside, it spread to the cities during the 1970s, attracting significant numbers of educated, unemployed youth energized by the peasants’ struggle for rights and recognition. A brutal counteroffensive, empowered by draconian anti-terrorist laws, brought the first phase of the movement to an end. In both novels, the central figures are Naxalite militants. Their immersion in the movement, together with the fallout of their decisions on the lives of those around them, largely propels the narrative in both.
By placing an emancipatory movement at the core of their novels, Lahiri and Mukherjee also place the politics of resistance front and center. And yet, even though both novels are structured by the political actions of key characters, neither author is able to muster an empathetic understanding of their characters’ actions. Moreover, the very idea of a life of struggle is made to appear at best quaint, at worst objectionable. In both novels, politics remains something imposed on the characters, an external, impinging force—but never a source of self-actualization. Instead it serves as a source of dislocation, self-doubt, broken relationships and disrupted lives. Each novel exposes its author’s inability to perceive the political as an intrinsic aspect of the individual being.
Hence, while each of the authors locates a politics of resistance at their novel’s center and views that politics through a universalizing prism, neither can fathom its attraction. Such an approach to emancipatory politics reinforces the neoliberal view that all resistance is doomed because there are no possible alternatives to the current order. And although both authors seem to want to escape an ethos where resistance is viewed as futile, neither is able to do so. As a result, neither is able to engage, much less express, the internal lives of their own central characters. Because of this, they remain limited, not just as post-colonial novels but simply as novels.
The World In a Grain of Sand, Nivedita Majumdar (emphasis mine)
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Nostalgia, a Sweet Reminisce
As I walked across that lonely desolate road,
No it was not a hill station filled with eternal solitude of nature,
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Those familiar faces were strange acquaintances
Who exchanged greetings everyday,
With a warm affectionate smile,
The questions were same, how's life?
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Most women in India have no control over the conditions in which they have sex and often, abortion becomes the only form of birth control. Women also have abortions because of the stigma of illegitimacy, or because they cannot afford another child, or because they are at a stage in their careers or their lives where they cannot take on the responsibility for yet another human life. Will the government officials monitoring abortions have the right to determine which is a valid reason for abortion and which is not? This is where we come to some very difficult issues that must be addressed. First, it seems to me we cannot hold simultaneously that abortion involves the right of women to control their bodies, but that women must be restricted by law from choosing specifically to abort female foetuses. We seem to be counterposing the rights of (future) women to be born against the rights of (present) women to have control over their bodies. It is true that many women in India go in for sex-selective abortion under pressure from their husbands’ families—it is not a ‘choice’ they make willingly. But is abortion ever a positive choice? Decisions to abort are almost always shaped by factors like those outlined above—illegitimacy, lack of social facilities for child care that place a disproportionate burden on women, economic constraints, and so on—and they are no more reflective of a woman’s autonomy than her decision to abort a foetus because it is female. Nor are such decisions less determined by the constraints of a patriarchal society and a family structure based on the sexual division of labour. So why is abortion in all these other circumstances legitimate but not the abortion of female foetuses? Second, what is our position on using pre-natal tests to detect ‘foetal abnormality’, a currently legal option? If we consider this valid, we are accepting a hierarchy of human beings based on physical characteristics, the lower levels of which do not have the right to be born. But then, this reasoning can be extended to other categories, such as females. One feminist response to this dilemma is to argue that since women would have the sole responsibility of looking after such children, they should have the option of whether to bear them or not. But an identical argument can be made about female children—that because the social pressure to bear male children falls entirely on the woman, she should have the right to abort a female foetus.
एकतरफा प्यार में छात्रा की हत्या की थी, अब फेसबुक पर लाइव आकर युवक ने खुद को मार ली गोली
Ranchi: एकतरफा प्यार में रांची के एक कॉलेज की छात्रा निवेदिता नयन की गोली मारकर हत्या करने वाले अंकित ने शनिवार को फेसबुक पर लाइव आकर खुद को भी गोली मार ली। मौके पर ही उसने दम तोड़ दिया। पुलिस ने रांची के कोकर अयोध्यापुरी मुहल्ले से उसकी लाश बरामद कर ली है। उसने शुक्रवार देर शाम रांची शहर के हरमू में निवेदिता की हत्या उस वक्त कर दी थी, जब वह अपनी सहेली के साथ हॉस्टल लौट रही थी।
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