Parinita (Hindi)

one of the illustrious and highly acclaimed novels of Sarat Chandra, portrays the forfeiture and benevolence of the contemporary Hindu Bengali woman. Steeped in the background of the 20th century Bengal, Parinita represents, the socio-cultural ethos centering the entire women folk in Bengal. Parinita essentially verbalizes the powerful society, which is silhouetted by traditions and the family systems with a strong apathy to the aspirations of individual. The word "Parinita" signifies the married woman, essentially restricted by the customary values, which in the true sense results in futile and vague disillusionment.

About The Author
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhya, became popular as a social reformer in the cloak of a novelist in the early 20th century. The great novelist Saratchandra Chattopadhyay was born on 16th January 1938. Born in a society, infested with unkind restrictions of traditions, Sarat Chandra had the first hand experience of the futility of the conventional customs. The typical Bengali society was his basic theme, in depicting the social superstitions and oppression. He always sympathized with women, who are "bonded" and caught up in the strong tradition and values of the society. The novelist`s intention is to etch out the gigantic task of victimized women to defeat all the falsity and social fallacy of chastity. The women he considered as the nodal agency of a society and injustice towards them either in the name of family or in the name of accepted values was the fundamental theme he has unveiled in the novels.