Anil Gharai’s Novel ‘Megh Jiboner Trishna’ : The Narrative of Hari Community/ অনিল ঘড়াই-এর ‘মেঘ জীবনের তৃষ্ণা’ : হাড়ি সম্প্রদায়ের ইতিকথা

Abstract

Post-colonial writer, Anil Ghrai's popular novel 'Megh Jiboner Trishna' is written about the Hari community. The Hari community has been depicted as the roots and reality of the caste system in our society. They are still oppressed. The process of Brahmin superiority and caste distinctions which became permanent in the social formation of Bengal during the Sena period still survives through various breakdowns. As a result, the social status of the Hari community remained the same and untouchability remains in our society. Through the story of Pawan's family's ups and downs, novelist Anil Ghrai is mainly represented in caste-dominated Hindu society who are not allowed to connect with the mainstream of the society. In the narrative of the novel 'Megh Jiboner Trishna', the picture shows the socio-economic condition of the Hari community, for whom there is a separate system, separate provisions in everything. The people of Hari community mainly spend their lives by rearing pigs, selling skins of dead animals collected from Bhagar to moneylenders or selling fish in the market and they lost their social identity.