Bhabani
Bhattacharya's 'So Many Hungers!' is a story about different hungers of the
people representing different sections of the country during
pre-independence. These hungers demonstrate their spiritual and psychological
statuses. As other novels of the period, this novel also highlights a theme
of social importance. The author deals in detail with the social setting of
the time, with his own style of objective treatment. The famine of 1943
brings so many hungers, the hunger for food, money and sex, the exploitation
of man by man seemed to him to have become the creed of the day. The
prevailing social conditions also worked upon the growing mind of
Bhattacharya, and inspired him to create his first novel. The famine of 1943
which stalked through the scared soil of Bengal, was one of the such events
as he himself confesses: "Then the great famine swept down upon Bengal.
The emotional stirrings I felt (more than two million men, women and children
died of slow starvation amid a man — made scarcity) were a sheer compulsion
to creativity". The result was the novel 'So Many Hungers!." The
novel is regarded as a socio-political novel because it deals with the
social, political and economical history of the pre- independent India. The
characters of the novel represent different types of hungers prevalent in the
Indian society at the time when the country faced a great famine. But the
characters are also individuals because they have their own styles of
behavior in different situations. The characters also seem to belong to all
ages. It is very much clear when the relevance of the novel is taken into
consideration. The issues raised in the novel are still present in the
current Indian society. This research paper presents the very subject of
discussion on the relevance of the social themes raised in the novel to the
present day situations in India. The novel is full of realistic but pathetic
scenes that they haunt the reader to a great extent. And one may be surprised
to find the same situations in the country, and in which the people are still
living, even after seventy-five years. The aim of this paper is also to
highlight those situations faced in every walk of life in the independent
India. R. Chandra Sekhar"So Many Hungers! - Still an Existing Reality in
the Country (In Reference to Bhabani Bhattacharya's Novel, 'So Many
Hungers')" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific
Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-2 ,
February 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd9589.pdf
Article URL:
http://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/english/9589/so-many-hungers!---still-an-existing-reality-in-the-country-in-reference-to-bhabani-bhattacharyas-novel-so-many-hungers/r-chandra-sekhar |
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