Bhabani Bhattacharya's Novel 'So Many Hungers'

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Chapter no 4: CONTENT ANALYSIS: The present research work has been endeavored to throw light upon the relationship of one hunger with the other. I.e. hunger for food as a result of man’s never-ending hunger for money and wealth. This paper will cover Bhabani Bhattacharya's first novel So Many Hungers, which manages neediness, craving and abuse of the common people in the man-made famine of Bengal in 1943. This novel being of the finest bits of experimental writing has been resulted from the agony and torment persevered by the holly soil of Bengal amid the ugly starvation years and the early phases of the Second World War. The tragic issue of Bengal has been projected by the author by depicting the good and bad times in the lives of two families: …show more content…

It brings lack of sight and numbness. Possibly, it is the craving for nourishment or for money an individual quits contemplating the desolation and agony of the other individuals. His vision is obscured by the intensity of his own appetite. Bhattachrya, expounds an occasion when Onu, the most youthful sibling of the protagonist Kajoli, declines to share figs to the other starved-kids, contrasting his current condition and the prior one: “Selfishness had been alien to his nature. He had always loved to share his best gifts with his friends. But hunger had debased his warm, innocent spirit. He had become a hoarder.” (So many hungers, page 114-115) Bhattachrya, paints another heart-tweaking photo of a mother who tries to bury her little child alive, so that he could dispose of the hunger-torments in light of the fact that she alongside her child have been battling the vicious plague of continuous hunger for so many days. The poor mother is restrained from doing this sinful act by Kajoli’s mother as she cries her heart

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