However, at one point of time, she curses herself for having such idealistic husband. She thinks of herself as a lucky person, as her husband is solely devoted to her unlike other men of the lineage who were engaged in either drinking or whoring. The story starts with Bimala, who describes herself as a proper Hindu wife’s life of a Bengali maharaja, Nikhil, confined in the four of walls of zenana for past nine years, much like her sister-in-law, Bara Rani. Therefore, it is not easy to understand what is there under the skin of his characters even when they are figurable and easy to relate. He has given the soul and flesh to even a minute character that has nothing to do but to fill the space. Tagore’s characters seem real with all their humane mundaneness. But if you look at it again, it is much more than a love triangle, it is a political and social commentary veiled up in the package of a love story. At the surface, it is a simple love triangle woven in the backdrop of Swadeshi Movement of 1906. Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World, originally, Ghare-Baire first published in 1916, is one of the beautiful examples of Indian writing and now achieved a cult status among the bibliophiles after 100 years of its first publication. A Still from Satyajit Ray’s The Home and The World (1984) Adaptation
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