Paper Details

Name: Archana Srivastva
Country: India

Year: 2016
Volume: Volume-3, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 52-56

When we look at Indian culture and its history, the shadow of the colonial impact still lingers. The stain runs so deep that we seem to have absorbed and embraced the colonial values and mindset as our own. For many decades, women would knock around in the dark, like blind, unable to see, and therefore, unable to drink from rivers that run in our own backyards. Modernization, education, urbanization, and similar factors helped women to break free from these shackles and find their true calling in life. Poetry in English by women writers is part of the transformation and reconstruction of Indian society, including its participation in a global system of education and economics, which has replaced the older colonial and imperial networks.
Another issue taken over by modern society is how the term ‘traditional’ is often taken as a disguise for gaining or maintaining power over women whenever faced with the liberating effects of democracy, education, and urbanization. According to traditionalists, ‘Sita’ should be the model for women, but there are many versions of the Ramayana some of which are even taken as feminist. Traditions are what you make of them.