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- Title
WRITING DROUGHT, THEN AND NOW: A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SARAT CHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAY'S THE DROUGHT AND ANITA AGNIHOTRI'S REMEMBERING.
- Authors
MAURYA, PRASHANT; KUMAR, NAGENDRA
- Abstract
Drought has been one of the most drafted natural calamities, in a country like India, which has been primarily agrarian. It finds a mention in the works of many native writers since times immemorial. We can just make mention of a few well-known writers like Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Kamala Markandaya, etc. who have brought out the pain and pangs of this natural calamity in the lives of drought affected people through their literary works. Drought is a theme which continues to haunt modern writers like Amitav Ghosh, Anita Agnihotri and many others, who try to pen down the overriding reality of life in India (which still is primarily an agrarian country). The present paper attempts to make a comparative assessment of two short stories, "The Drought" and "Remembering", by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay and Anita Agnihotri respectively, in order to meaningfully study the impact of drought on poor people's lives and their responses to such situations. The selected stories come from two different time periods, with a gap of nearly a hundred years, yet their concerns seem similar. The paper further discusses how Anita Agnihotri, who is more of a contemporary writer differs from Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay who belongs to the classical mood of story writing in the depiction of the social milieu that continues to be the same even after a century.
- Subjects
DROUGHTS; NATURAL disasters; POOR people; MEMORY; TIME measurements
- Publication
Caesura: Journal of Philological & Humanistic Studies, 2019, Vol 6, Issue 1, p57
- ISSN
2360-3372
- Publication type
Article