Shrikant 2

The genius of Shrikant Saratchandra has reached its peak in the depiction of the suffering of women. Almost every novel of his is woven around the irony of the lives of women in some form or the other. The protagonist of 'Srikanth' is a wanderer but in his journey, the novel brings to us many such women through whom we move towards understanding the conflict between the then society and the individual, concepts of purity and sin and eternal conflicts like rebellion and acceptance. start thinking. The female characters like Rajalakshmi, Annada Didi and Sunanda, who came in this novel, still seem to us to be the same characters around us. Even today, through their life and their circumstances, the misery of the woman can be known, in which there has not been much reduction even today. It is noteworthy that this novel has been translated afresh, Keeping together all those excerpts that had been omitted in the translations so far available. An absolutely excellent novel. The genius of Shrikant Saratchandra has reached its peak in the depiction of the suffering of women. Almost every novel of his is woven around the irony of the lives of women in some form or the other. The protagonist of 'Srikanth' is a wanderer but in his journey, the novel brings to us many such women through whom we move towards understanding the conflict between the then society and the individual, concepts of purity and sin and eternal conflicts like rebellion and acceptance. start thinking. Rajalakshmi came in this novel, Even today, female characters like Annada Didi and Sunanda seem to us to be the same characters around us. Even today, through their life and their circumstances, the misery of the woman can be known, in which there has not been much reduction even today. It is noteworthy that this novel has been translated afresh, keeping all the fragments that have been left out in the translations available so far. An absolutely excellent novel.