In her letter to her husband Mrinal wrote that she had decided never to return back to her husband’s house again. She had witnessed Bindu’s tragedy and realised the pathetic condition of women in society.She also felt that when society had disowned Bindu , God had not cast her away. However powerful societal oppression was, it could not hold Bindu prisoner forever. Death, which was more powerful than any mortal agent and also the ultimate liberator, had claimed her. In death Bindu had achieved greatness. From being an orphaned, unwanted girl in a Bengali middle-class household, cast off by her own kin and tricked into marriage to a madman, she had been set free by death and transformed into an immortal soul, one with the great God Himself.
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The Wife's Letter
RandomTagore's famous short story, 'Streer Patra', highlights the suffering, ignominy and neglect that women have to face in a male dominated society. Although set in late nineteenth century Kolkata, Tagore's story has releva...
