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Women Exploitations and Alienation in India-Annotated Bibliography

Gupta, Pragya. “From Mahasweta Devi to Kalpana Lajmi.” Creative Forum (2008): 16-25

“Rudali” is one of the short stories in “Nairetey Megh.” The story focuses on socio-economic issues such as marginalization of the poor people in the village. In this story, the author provides a class of class and gender-related issues. The text provokes the reader's imagination, anger, and conceptualization of how the top class/upper class of the society commits many atrocities without care of the effects of their actions on other people (Gupta, 16). The story uses imagination to communicate to the reader. It tells a story of a woman who lives

The author uses a story to tell another story to bring out her ideas. A story is told of a mother who is woken up one morning to the news of her son who is dead and is lying at the police mortuary. The body of her son is labeled corpse No. 1084 which the author depicts as a form of demeaning. Through the process of emancipation, the mother of the son soon realizes her son's commitment to the revolution of India at the time. Through the process the Son's mother realize how women's alienation and discrimination as a wife is perpetrated in the society she lives in, one that her son had rebelled against and got him killed. In this article, the author depicts the struggle that women had been going through in South Asia. Indeed the society had been discriminating women in the society and deliberately alienated from the societies

The author writes of how the three issues have always been researched or rather misrepresented in South Asia. The author argues that many researchers have treated the three issues as separate entities yet according to Devi’s characterization of women, wives, daughters and sisters are all grouped in the bonded laborers, other bonded discourses, and bonded prostitutes. Many studies on bonded labor are based on men who worked on an agricultural plantation before the year 1976, the year when debt-bondage was officially abolished. Devi’s contests these studies in basis that debt-bondage has essentially continued especially for women who work as casual laborers and don’t get paid and prostitutes who work to compensate or repay debts at compounded interest. However, Devi argues that the unpaid labor of such women is often classified as the invisible labor sector. The author further argues that the bondage has continued with such little intervention. Even researchers on the same topics often ignore the ethical suffering of such women in South