Pakshibasa - Sahoo, Sarojini
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Pakshibasa is the saga of the declination of a family, a dream, and a future. This multi-dimensional novel includes a downtrodden family saga; the Communist guerilla war (Maoist movement) in current India; and the socio-economic picture of Orissa. All these subjects are combined with a symbolic representation of a mythical story from the Hindu Vaishnavism holy book Bhagwat. In every aspect, the author's tone is bold and spiky and heightens the awareness and senses of the reader. The novel is the saga of an untouchable, downtrodden cattle bone collector, Satnemi and his family, and takes place…mehr

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Pakshibasa is the saga of the declination of a family, a dream, and a future. This multi-dimensional novel includes a downtrodden family saga; the Communist guerilla war (Maoist movement) in current India; and the socio-economic picture of Orissa. All these subjects are combined with a symbolic representation of a mythical story from the Hindu Vaishnavism holy book Bhagwat. In every aspect, the author's tone is bold and spiky and heightens the awareness and senses of the reader. The novel is the saga of an untouchable, downtrodden cattle bone collector, Satnemi and his family, and takes place in western Orissa. It is not a story of an individual person but of an entire family. Antara, the head of the family himself, his wife Sarasi, his three sons Sanyasi, Daktar, and Okil, and his daughter Paraba demonstrate the development of restlessness and frustration regarding the ongoing crisis of mankind. A downtrodden man has a dream to see his sons established in their lives. So he names them "Collector" (Administrative Officer), "Daktar" (Doctor), and "Okil" (Lawyer). He dreams to see his only daughter, Paraba, as a bride in a respectable and rich family. But where the traditional occupation of cattle bone collection is the only way of living, could this ever be possible? The elder son, Sanyasi, becomes a bohemian artist adopted by a white-skinned priest and has been lost in Japan where he has gone to perform his folk art. His illiterate wife awaits her husband's return in an alien city. The second son Daktar became a bonded laborer as the local youths of western Orissa usually prefer to make their living. The third son Okil, who is considered by his father to be a lazy good-for-nothing, joins the Communist Guerilla movement, locally known as the Maoist Party. Three days' hunger forces Paraba to be raped for a plate of rice by a forest guard who the only representative of the Government in the jungle for the people and who also works as an agent for sex trafficking. Later she adopts the profession of prostitution. The novel ends with the death of Okil.
Autorenporträt
Sarojini Sahoo(born 1956) is an Orissa Sahitya Academy Award winning (1993) Indian feminist writer, a columnist in The New Indian Express and an associate editor of Chennai-based English magazine Indian AGE. She has been enlisted among 25 Exceptional Women of India by Kindle Magazine of Kolkata. She started fiction writing from 70's. A bilingual writer writes both in English and Odia. She has ten anthologies of short stories and ten novels. She has published a collection of English essays Sensible Sensuality (2010), where redefining femininity with Eastern perspective, the book explores why sexuality plays a major role in our understanding of Eastern feminism. Also, she has two novels and three short stories collections in English. Two of her novels and two of her short stories collections have been translated into Hindi and Bengali, Kannada and Sinhalese (Srilanka). Her one of novels has also been translated into Malayalam and published by Chintha Publishers, Thiruvanthapuram. One of her English essays collection Sensible sensuality has been translated and published into Bengali, Malayalm, Hindi and Odia.