“Chokher Bali” Rabindranath Tagore, (1903) Review | Tragedy from India

Chokher Bali
Rabindranath Tagore, 1903
India
298 pages
Read in 2022.03
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✔ Indian classic
✔ Strong female characters
✔ Strange friendship between the wife and the lover


🔽 Review summary 🔽

★★★★☆ A beautiful widow. She cannot give up her pursuit for happiness. Chokher Bali, the sand in the eye, she disturbs everything she touches and disappears. A strong sense of un-happiness.

🔽 Book review and notes 🔽

My first Tagore.
This is actually popular that it’s made into film and TV series in India.
The sentiment is close to what they have in Japan: husband-wife relation, mother-son, or even mother-in-law and wife, it’s something many in Asia can easily understand, and cannot avoid.

Then comes the beautiful widow.
Despote “her place” as a widow, she cannot give up her pursuit for affection and happiness.
Chokher Bali, the sand in the eye, the annoying thing, she arrives and disturbs everything she touches.
And like an eyesore, before you know it it goes away and the life is back to normal, the witch is punished.

Her happiness was taken away because she’s a widow, she brings bad things.
Could they ever blame her?
A strong sense of un-happiness.

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