Sexual consciousness in some of Tarashankar's novels/ কামনার কালীদহ ও তারাশঙ্করের কয়েকটি উপন্যাস

Abstract

Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay is a bright star in the post-Rabindra-Sharat Bengali literature in the first half of the 20th century. His name is pronounced along with Bibhutibhushan and Manik. Although Tarashankar is ahead of both of them in terms of composition. However, his longer life than the other two writers can also be identified in this context. Tarashankar is mainly referred to as the commentator of ‘Rarhbangla’. He himself was a representative of the evolving feudal society. But he saw all classes of people from landlords to crowd, rich to poor; He understood their life, society, love, relationship, nature and instinct with his heart. The people of Rangamati in Birbhum, Tarashankar's paradise, Came to life in his pen. Tarashankar's literature is a candid picture of marginalized life, Norit is world of hypocrisy of the rich affluent society. Their anger - violence-hatred is as obvious as the expression of sexuality is clear, undisguised. All these become vivid and lively or alive in his work. From Novel ‘Ganadevata’ Durga, the prostitute, to Padma the housewife--there is an expression of desire in all; Someone is clear in someone's signal-consonant-form. Drunken Aniruddha leaves an unhappy childless marriage and seeks release through sex. Although Chiru Pal wants to be a gentleman, his children bear the mark of his unbridled sexuality. In the novel 'Kobi', Basanta, she too had become accustomed to the indulgent life. She sought to be freed by sheltering Nitai Kabial, but was not saved in the end. Basanta's libertine life had a tragic end in death. In 'Hansuli Banker Upaktha', the Kahar-Kanyas of Banshbadi village leave the house because of desire. They left their sick husband and remarried a man. Due to physical dissatisfaction, Kaloshashi stalks her pre-marriage lover Banwari. Seeing the example of the dead lover, the old Banwari brought the young girl Subasi at home, but could not keep her to herself. In fact, not the house, not the family, not the children, -- girls easily leave the house and run to the new guy. And men's polygamy adultery is in their holes--Banwari, from Param to Karali, no one is satisfied from one woman, mens' instinct of polygamy and adultery has switched from genaration after genaration. In the novel 'Naginikanyar Kahini', the author has highlighted two forms of passion centered on Shabala Pingala. Men who are the head of the Vedic community, how they turn women into objects of lust is highlighted here. In the novel 'Radha', along with the dialectics of Vaishnava theory, the image of the decadent society of the 18th century has emerged. Although it is not very long, the boy of Vaishnava descent is supposed to run wildly after dark barbarian girls. It is in the context of these few novels that the subject of sexuality has been discussed in the works of Tarashankar.