RAG MALKOSH
Genre : Novel
Publisher : Assam Book Depot, Guwahati
Year : 1999
synopsis
RAG MALKOSH – Inner workings of woman’s mind, bitterness of her relationship with the family, psycho- somatic changes, and a deep sense of identity crisis are at its zenith by the time she approaches forty. Mala, an otherwise happy housewife, somehow lost her sense of complacency and had the realisation that she too suffered from the same malady like average middle -aged women.
Rag Malkosh is the story of a woman in which the writer explores some hidden truth of female psychology, buried deep in her past and obsessed with a sense of alienation in the present. Dr. Chowdhury depicts her characters, both male and female, first as ordinary human being, then as man and women, and at long last, partners in life only to find that there is no lasting bound between them.
At forty or around, Mala is almost lifeless, still and lonely like a portrait hanging from a wall. Dr Chowdhury, although not an avowed feminist, treads on her path with confidence and understanding for women’s woes. Her prose is mellifluent and at the same time poetic.
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