A still from the Bengali film Shilpi published in the Bengali journal Rupmancha on Nov, 1956, with caption warning the directors not to the make the same mistake that they made with their previous film Sagarika; the mistake of corrupting the Bengali…
The essay confronts a problem of political thought approached through the question of cruelty inflicted on Hindu widows of Bengali middle-class families. As the harrowing descriptions of oppression raise a mixture of sadness, horror and anger in the…
