3. WATER
• Water is set in 1938, when India was still
under the colonial rule of the British, and
when the marriage of children to older men
was common place.
4. WATER
• Following Hindu tradition, when a man died,
his widow would be forced to spend the rest
of her life in a widow's ashram, an institution
for widows to make amends for the sins from
her previous life that supposedly caused her
husband's death.
5. WATER
• Chuyia (Sarala) is an eight year old girl who has
just lost her husband.
• She is deposited in the ashram for Hindu widows
to spend the rest of her life in renunciation.
• She befriends Kalyani who is forced into
prostitution to support the ashram, Shakuntala,
one of the widows, and Narayan, a young and
charming upper-class follower of Mahatma
Gandhi and of Gandhism.
6. WATER
• The novel is based upon Deepa Mehta's 2005
film, Water.
• This is a longer version of the screenplay of
the movie by Deepa Mehta.
• It is set in 1938 in Rawalpur, a village on the
Bihar-Bengal border
• The condition of women and plight of widows
shapes up as part of a larger narrative in this
book.
7. WATER
• The book is a finely crafted depiction of the
most basic human tendencies.
• It narrates the anguish of the eight year old
Chuyia who is rendered as a widow and how
eventually she befriends Kalyani.
• Despite the focus primarily being on the plight
of widows of India then, it focuses on widow
remarriage and freedom of choice.
8. WATER
• It is a finely crafted book which lends beauty
to the film and enhances the visual appeal of
the film.
• Water trailer
