‘Dhahan’ Darpane narir protibadi protichobi/ ‘দহন’ দর্পণে নারীর প্রতিবাদী প্রতিচ্ছবি

Abstract

In a male-dominated society, discrimination between men and women is customary and resisted. Even though girls are half the sky, their role is limited to the unspeakable pain of domesticity and kitchen. And that is the diary of how many unknown tortures to hide the hidden words of a clear mind that goes on beyond the thick walls of Banedi house. In the seventies, Suchitra Bhattacharya came forward to write the words of those women in her ‘Dahan’. Here she portrays the highly educated and smart woman at the same time, as well as portraying the unheard subjugation of the housewives of the Banedi family hidden behind the banadiana. Here Jhinuk is one side and on the other side there is Ramita. To save this Ramita from the indecent clutches of four youths at the Tollygunge metro station, Jhinuk jumped on the miscreants. Not only that, the Jhinuk stood against all the family and society to get her justice on the social issue and dragged to the court. Even then, to protect the marital relationship with her husband Palash Ramita had signed an agreement not by the call of Jhinuk, but by Bonedibari. In a moment, the struggle and hard work of Jhinuk was broken. Ramita could not rely on his own backbone to come out of the darkness of the inner city and stand against the wrongdoers once and for all. On the other hand, Palash, who should have been by Ramita's side as her husband, forced Ramita to give false testimony to her in court, maintaining the false ego and nobility of male. Standing in the 21st century from this point of view, Suchitra Bhattacharya throws some questions in our minds. Have we really been able to adapt this self-sentence of equal rights for men and women from our minds? May be not. So “Dahan” is not just the story of the personality development of a modern woman. Rather, it can be said that it is a mirror image of building a healthy communist society regardless of men and women by going against the prevailing norms.