Binodini: A novel by Rabindranath Tagore
About Us: Archive: Contact Us: Editorial Board: Submission: FAQ: The Criterion An International Journal in English ISSN: Title of the Book: Binodini Bengali Title: Chokhar Bali Author: Rabindranath Tagore Translated by: Krishna Kripalani Publisher: New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi Publication year: Pages: Price: Rs ISBN Reviewed by: Sagarika Dash Assistant Professor (Humanities) Padmanava College of Engineering, (BPUT) Rourkela – , Odisha Set in the milieu of the 19th century Indian society, Binodini, a novel written by the Nobel laureate Dr Rabindranath Tagore, tells the tale of a well-to-do middle class family of Calcutta. Originally written in Bānglā with the title Chokhar Bāli (literally meaning ‘sand in the eye’), the novel has been translated into English by Krishna Kripalani. The translator in his foreword to the novel opines, “It centers round the problem of human relationship and tells of what happens behind the staid facade of a well-to-do, middle class Bengali home of the period, where a widowed mother lives with her only son on whom she dotes”. Apart from telling the story of the family, the novel revolves around two main charact
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Chokher Bali: a historico-cultural
translation of Tagore
by Srimati Mukherjee
Editor’s Note:
Srimati Mukherjee’s article, “Chokher Bali: a historico-cultural translation of Tagore,” was published in Jump Cut in In January the editors discovered that a large section of the article, about words, had been directly copied and presented as original work in another publication. We have concluded that this is self-evident plagiarism.
The plagiarized passage appears in “Adaptation and Ideology: A Study of Rituparno Ghosh’s Films,” by Sananda Roy and was published in The Indian Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, Vol. 2, no. 1, February , pp.
[].From the bottom of Page 22, all through Page 23, and into Page 24, Sananda Roy copies from the original JUMP CUT publication with virtually no modification. Although Roy cites the original under "Webliography," there is no acknowledgement in the text itself or marker that it is a long direct quote from the section of the
Binodini’s Women: The three strong characters of My Son, My Precious.
A snapshot from the digitally restored print of &#;Imagi Ningthem&#;. (Source: Aribam Syam Sharma/Facebook)Ekashini is one of three women in the film, written by Binodini based on her radio play of the same name. The character of Ekashini played on screen by Rashi (Manipuri actors go by single names) is a happy, contented housewife with a stable, hardworking husband. Her cousin Dhani, by contrast, is single and cerebral. She refuses to pay a bribe, preferring to take up a humble job as a schoolteacher in a remote village. Dhani is the one who finds out that a frail boy in the village was the son of Memtombi, a tomboyish teenager. The boy’s father is her cousin Ekashini’s husband who left the young village girl pregnant and returned to his family in the city.
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All three women come up against the behavior of men in different ways. Refusal, un-acceptance, protest, and “no” resound throughout the film. Dhani’s quiet protest in an introspective voiceover with the camera framing her in close up as she rides a rickshaw on her way to her new job, speaks wryly to the corruption she
Binodini
Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, in Calcutta, India. He attended University College, at London for one year before being called back to India by his father in During the first 51 years of his life, he achieved some success in the Calcutta area of India with his many stories, songs, and plays. His short stories were published monthly in a friend's magazine and he played the lead role in a few of the public performances of his plays. While returning to England in , he began translating his latest selections of poems, Gitanjali, into English. It was published in September in a limited edition by the India Society in London. In , he received the Nobel Prize for literature. He was the first non-westerner to receive the honor. In , he was knighted by King George V, but Tagore renounced his knighthood in following the Amritsar massacre of Indian demonstrators by British troops. He primarily worked in Bengali, but after his success with Gitanjali, he translated many of his other works into English. He wrote over one thousand poems; eight volumes of short stories; almost two dozen plays and play-lets; eight novels; and many books and essays on philosophy, religion,
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