Bengali Writer Suchitra Bhattacharya Dies at 65!

Five Suchitra Bhattacharya novels that redefined feminist literature in Bengal ► read more http://goo.gl/cJgg6Q

The 65-year-old novelist succumbed to a cardiac arrest in her south-Kolkata residence last night but her worldview lives on in many of us.

When The Indian Express approached veteran Bengali writer Suchitra Bhattacharya to be a part of a panel to choose best young writers in vernacular literature a few years ago, she took it upon herself to introduce us to the works of the new generation of Bengali writers like Sangita Bandyopadhyay and Tilottama Majumdar. She spoke at length about the genesis of feminist writing in Bengal, the contribution of Ashapurna Debi and Mahasweta Debi, but she never mentioned her sizeable contribution to the cause. She was too humble to do that. The truth is that the women of modern Bengal, the young divorcee from Siliguri, the single mother from Patuli, the homemaker from Burdwan, the ageing widow from Ballygunj, they all owe a lot to Suchitra Bhattacharya. Through her novels, Suchitra Bhattacharya documented their realities, their aspirations and their silences. The 65-year-old novelist succumbed to a cardiac arrest in her south-Kolkata residence last night but her worldview lives on in many of us. The following is a selection of five of her best-loved works.



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