Paper Details

Name: Seema Rani
Country: India

Year: 2015
Volume: Volume-2, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 43-45

Urmila Pawar has carved a niche for as a dalit feminist writer. Her short stories are one of its kind in portraying the dalit women’s sensibilities in a remarkably forceful, revolutionary, effective and surprising manner. She weaves her tales revolving around strong, resilient and powerful women who can be called as the ‘new women’, possessing masculine traits. Pawar amuses the readers with her surprise endings which can be called as ‘sting-in-tail’ endings. Where the ‘new woman’ braves all the odds and refuses to be suppressed, repressed and oppressed by the patriarchal society. She creates an altogether new world of women that transcends the boundaries of gender. For eg women protagonists in the stories ‘Aaye’ and ‘Nyay’ are presented by the writer as possessing extraordinary courage which helps them fight with the unjust society. Pawar’s protagonists are defiant, tough and hard. They are complete and independent individuals before whom their male counterparts seem trivial and unimportant. To quote Pawar, they do back breaking labour. The Writer generally presents them as the sole bread earners for the entire family as their husbands are either not alive or are generally drunkards.