Samaresh basu's Uratia in the lence of evolutionary psychology/ বিবর্তনী মনোবিজ্ঞানের আলোকে সমরেশ বসুর গল্প ‘উরাতিয়া’

Samaresh basu's Uratia

Abstract

Samaresh Basu was a well-known short story writer in Bengali literature. He has been popular for using various life narratives through his writings. ‘Uratia’ is one of them. In the short story Uratia there are two characters, Lakhpati and Ghamari. They have their job to control the railway gate. But that job didn’t bother them. It has only ensured their human-like survival. We would like to convey by this essay that sometimes the psychology of a man may be dominated by their sexual instinct. They live in our worldly environment. But they did not act as our worldly norms. Lakhpati and Ghamari are both muscular men. They always fight. Not for their survival, but they express their manly power by this. In this scenario, in between them, the woman Uratia came. She has the power of mesmerism. Both of them know to fight for proving their bodily strength. But Uratia has some different power. If Lakhpati and Ghamari are the symbols of manliness, then Uratia will be the female way of putting that manliness down.

            In this essay we have tried to understand this man-woman dichotomy. We have used evolutionary psychology to decode their behaviours. We have tried to understand how even in this civilised world the man and woman are both using their precivilised instincts.