Mallika Sengupta is an exceptional voice/ মল্লিকা সেনগুপ্ত এক ব্যতিক্রমী কণ্ঠস্বর

Abstract

Mallika Sengupta is one of the most powerful poets of the eighties. She has gradually developed herself in the world of Bengali poetry. She took poetry lessons from the elder poets and devoted herself to writing one poem at a time. Poetry for her is not only for leisure and entertainment but she wants to make poetry one of the means of protest of helpless women. She wrote about the victimized, struggling women as well as about the little girl who was sexually assaulted on the school bus. Again, Amrapali, Tuten Khamen's mother, Sujata, Phulan Devi wrote about Winnie Mandela, as well as Sita, Krishna has been reconstructed a new. Mallika wanted to give an important message to the society through poetry. She played a very important role in building the language in which today's young poets write poetry. She did not limit herself only to poetry, wrote many articles, novels, etc. Mallika did not believe that men are the enemies of women, rather she was against the patriarchal social system. In the book 'Purush Noy Purushtantra', Mallika has given a beautiful description of the one who has worshiped women in the knowledge of goddess on the one hand and on the other hand has made women slaves to serve their own interests and made them slaves. In fact, no one is born as a woman, one has to become a woman according to the needs of the society. This becoming a woman is a social process that is constantly happening in the society, the book 'Strilinga Nirman' is about her. Mallika's 'Sitayan' is a very relevant book. We have been listening to Ramayana for a long time but she told the story of Sita as Sitayan. She strongly protested against the fact that women have been thought of as the consumer goods of men for ages. Sita here is not only a goddess but also an independent woman of flesh and blood. On the other hand, in the book 'Kabir Bauthan', we see the old customs, traditional ideas, barriers and obstacles. The then noble Tagore family was no exception to these. Various characters of Tagore family are crowded in this novel. In this novel, Mallika has made a woman's self-discovery in the heart of Tagore's family. In her works, the marginalised, helpless, cornered Bengali girls have come up again and again. Despite standing in a patriarchal society, she protested about women's rights with an unyielding attitude.