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The Seedling Whom Can I Tell? How Can I Explain?
The Seedling
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This is an early, astonishingly radical and feminist novel in Bengali (Nabankur) from a long neglected writer. The story is set in the forties, a period of intense political activity and devastating famines. Possessing a clearly autobiographical quality, it depicts the turbulent, always questioning childhood and adolescence of Chhobi, who is in revolt against all oppression, and especially against the male-ordered destiny prescribed by the traditionalists or the left wing progressives.
demy octavo paperback approx 250pp July 2000
ISBN 81-85604-06-1    Rs 150    All rights available		 By Sulekha Sanyal
Born in 1928 in an impoverished family that had once been indigo planters, she became a communist while a student, but her unconventional ideas rarely met with the party's approval. At thirty four she died of leukemia, leaving a number of short stories and novels, characterized by their passion and subtlety.

Translated by Gouranga P. Chattopadhyay
Retired as Professor of Behavioural Science, Indian INstitute of Management, Calcutta. He is currently techign at the department of organizational behaviour and marketing, Swinburne University, Australia.
Whom Can I Tell? How Can I Explain?
stories by Saroj Pathak
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Saroj Pathak delves deep into the human mind---warped, desperate, frustrated, often on the verge of derangement, and traces these strange inner lives as social documents of our times.
    Pathak is not only an analyst of the mind, she is also a thinker and a feminist. She sympathetically portrays urban, lower middle class migrants in metropolitan Mumbai, both women and men; many of her protagonists buckling under the pressure of life at the edge of modernity. Complex and well constructed, her stories are an account of the inner lives of a class that rarely makes an appearance in modern Indian literature. This collection gives us a sense of the range of her characters from Ballu in 'Whom Can I Tell?' to 'Saarika Caged' to the lonely but resilient Jwalaprasad and Rakhi in 'Inferences'.
demy octavo paperback     approx 150pp    July 2000
ISBN 81-85604-14-2    Rs 150    All rights available		 By Saroj Pathak
One of Gujarat's leading women 
writers, when Saroj Pathak died in
1989 at the age of sixty, she had 
published seven collections of
stories and six novels, besides 
critical essays. Her first collection
of short stories published in 1959
won an award from the Mumbai 
government. Her columns in 
Samachar and Gujarat Mitra
aroused violently mixed reactions.

Translated by Shirin Kudchedkar
A feminist critic and director 
of the Canadian Studies
programme at the
SNDT Women's University, 
Mumbai. She was the editor 
of the Gujarati section of the
two volume Women 
Writing in India,edited by
Susie Tharu and K. Lalita.
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