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The Month Of Aswina Analysis

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During the month of Aswina they celebrate Durga puja which is documented in the novel colorfully by the novelist: ‘The spirit of the goddess was abroad, and the soothsayers and witch-doctors, the kalisis and shamans and begumis, possessed by the deity, danced wildly; buffaloes were sacrificed, their blood spurting out in lurid jets to mingle with the mud; drums throbbed…trumpets shrilled… There were flags and processions, displays of swords, battle-axes and spears, and always the shouting and roaring and grunting for blood, more blood.’(322-323) Mohanty gives numerable examples of the rituals that are followed by Paraja. He has given very rich ethnographic detail about the tribe and very closely recorded the beliefs and rituals of the tribe. …show more content…

Gopinath documents the injustice happens to Sukru Jani and on his family when they pay the price of their land and try to free it. But Sahukar cheats him by saying that he has done oral agreement to mortgage the land for 30 years. When he goes to the court he has to see all the people of the court to get justice. It goes in vein as Sahukar has bribed each and every person in the court and even the tribesmen of the village. The violence at the end of the novel explodes out of silent suffering and anger, which is like ‘a fire that feeds on itself and waits’ (127) till it cannot be contained any more. According to Mahasweta Devi violence is justified when tribals are oppressed. ‘When the system fails in justice, violence is justified…. The individual cannot go on suffering in silence.’(Mahasweta Devi: 2001: xii). In this way, it can be summed up that the novel not only posits the suffering of the Paraja and Domo tribes but also presents the tribal way of life with their tradition, rituals and superstitions. Mohanty 's vision is grim indeed. There is no escape for the tribal dispossessed. Unlike Job, Sukru Jani does not even possess the patience to test the gods. In fact, his gods are cruel: "Their tears soaked the earth but were powerless to melt human hearts. And their gods laughed." Nor does he have the comforting cushion of fate: karma is a concept alien to the

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