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I’m not saying that Tagore was a feminist, however, he did raise similar questions through his works, which we as feminists are asking even now. Streer Patra (The Wife’s Letter) is an epistolary written by Tagore, expressing a woman’s plight and resentment with the way her life unravels. The story however covers much more important issues ...
Strir Patra (also Streer Patra; English: A Wife's Letter) is a 1972 Bengali film, directed by Purnendu Patri, based on a short story by Rabindranath Tagore. Madhabi Mukherjee plays the lead role. Tagore's story, first published in 1914, is considered to be a path-breaking feminist text. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The film won the National Film Award for Best ...
Sep 28, 2022 · Also Read: Finding Feminism In Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Streer Patra’ Chitarangada from Chitra: The One Act Play. In 1913, the one-act play Chitra, set the stage for a woman as the lead in Mahabharata. The play is Tagore’s lyrical adaptation of the love story of Chitrangada and Arjuna.
Jun 2, 2014 · The Awakening: Significance of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Strir Patra” in the Present World 211 Bengali women in the early 20th century was brought out in Rabindranath Tagore’s short stories like “Strir Patra”, “Nasta Neer”, “Ghare Bhaire”, etc. “Strir Patra” was published in 1914, which literally means “A Wife’s Letter.”
- Tejaswani Kadavakollu
Rachana Sankalan (Collected Works). ed, Parthajit Gangopadhyay. Kolkata: Dey's Publishing, 2011. Dutta, Krishna and Robinson, Andrew. Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad Minded Man. New Delhi: Rupa & Co, 2000. Ganguly, Swati. "Making Swadesh Accessible to English Readers: Glimpses of Bengal and the Short Stories". Rabindranath Tagore and the Nation ...
- Sandipan Sen
Jan 20, 2012 · A different side: Young Rabindranath Tagore with Mrinalini Debi. Rabindranath's story “Streer Patra” (Wife's Letter) is a perennial favourite among readers for exposing the patriarchal baggage of landowning, uppercrust families in Bengal. Tagore was artistically using the subterfuge of the epistolary form to enter the mind, voice and ...
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Abstract. This article is about Rabindranath Tagore’s construction of the new bhadramahila in “The Wife’s Letter” (1914) and The Home and the World (1915). In particular, the arguments focus on the constitution of “independent” women subjects by three interrelated authorial strategies: first, the modification of the home to repurpose gender relations; second, the importance of the ...
