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Ashapurna Debi gazed into the
heart of the domestic life of the Indian woman as no other writer in the
world has done. In one story after another, numbering into thousands by the
time she was done, she examined the imprisonment of the women within their homes
and their responses to the power play, pressures and hypocrisies lying
beneath the surface of the apparent solidity of the middle-class urban
family. Nobody has written as relentlessly, with as much insight and yet with
as light a touch, of the darkness of both the interior and the behavioural
life within the four walls of the home. Over more than 70 years of a writing
career, she created an extraordinary oeuvre, whose depths will be mined for
generations.
 Twenty-one of Ashapurna Debi’s most
shocking stories, cherry-picked from over a thousand, have been brought
together in this collection. Why these stories in particular? Each of them
unravels an unexpected, even dreadful, side to the personalities of the women
who feature in them. In every story, a deceptively quiet but potentially
explosive act of revolt takes place – or comes close to taking place. Far
from the sweet and submissive stereotype of the wife/mother/daughter/woman of
the house that familial structures have enforced, it is the rebellious side
of the woman, often forced to emerge through cruelty, viciousness and even
hatred, that stands revealed. these are scandalous stories, each one of them.
Ashapurna Debi gazed into the
heart of the domestic life of the Indian woman as no other writer in the
world has done. In one story after another, numbering into thousands by the
time she was done, she examined the imprisonment of the women within their homes
and their responses to the power play, pressures and hypocrisies lying
beneath the surface of the apparent solidity of the middle-class urban
family. Nobody has written as relentlessly, with as much insight and yet with
as light a touch, of the darkness of both the interior and the behavioural
life within the four walls of the home. Over more than 70 years of a writing
career, she created an extraordinary oeuvre, whose depths will be mined for
generations.
 Twenty-one of Ashapurna Debi’s most
shocking stories, cherry-picked from over a thousand, have been brought
together in this collection. Why these stories in particular? Each of them
unravels an unexpected, even dreadful, side to the personalities of the women
who feature in them. In every story, a deceptively quiet but potentially
explosive act of revolt takes place – or comes close to taking place. Far
from the sweet and submissive stereotype of the wife/mother/daughter/woman of
the house that familial structures have enforced, it is the rebellious side
of the woman, often forced to emerge through cruelty, viciousness and even
hatred, that stands revealed. these are scandalous stories, each one of them.
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