Talaq The Divorce Short Story Mahasweta Devi

1. Mahasweta Devi's Talaq (The Divorce)
Navleen Multani

2. • Till Death Do Us Part
• Realistic Writings
• Real life experiences of unlettered masses
• Misery and marginalization of women
• Patriarchal Domination
• Customs,Religious Practices,Law

3. • Gonu
• Kulsum
• Arshad
• Hara
• Balai
• Phuli
• Duli

4. • Kuli 50 years
• Bold
• Courageous
• Assertive
• Caring Wife
• Affectionate Mother
• Respects her husband Arshad
• Plans and saves earning

5. • Hard Working; 60 years
• Caring Husband and father
• Respects Kulsum
• Uneducated
• Wise
• Loves his grandson
• Utters Triple Talaq in rage
• Repents

6. • Social Inequalities, Identity
• Gender Discrimination
• Gender oppression enmeshed in class and caste
dichotomies
• Unilateral Divorce
• Individual conscience vs. Collective conscience
• Denial of basic rights; Morality
• Human Rights, Equality

7. • Rise in Consciousness
• Movement from passivity to freedom
• Religious rights of women
• Instant Divorce Law; gender discrimination
• Determinants of divorce in traditions,customs and courts
• Personal Laws
• Woman's position and dignity in family and society

8. • Kulsum's rejection of traditional, religious and regressive
way to nullify triple talaq advances new perspective to
reconfigure the patriarchal order
• Egalitarianism
• Emancipation
Nelson Mandela
'Writers should help us think what has hitherto been
unthinkable,. . .[and] universality of human experience'

9. • Divorce
• Talaq uttered in rage
• Separation
• Remarriage
• Repartnering
• Barriers
• Women's Rights
N.Hevener “protective,corrective,non-discriminatory”

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Journal of the Indian Law Institute 57.3 (July-September
2015):pp 307-332
• Cherlin,Andrew J.' Introduction to Special Collection on
Separation,Divorce,Repartnering and Remarriage around
the World' Demographic Research 37(July-December
2017):pp1275-1296
• Sullivan,Michelle.'Legal Eye:Equality and Democracy'
Agenda 47(2001):pp 75-80

11. • Uddin,Asma T. 'Woman's Rights in Islamic Laws' Islam
and Human Rights. Atlantic Council:pp.26-32
• Vintage,Karen. A New Dawn for the Second
Sex.'Women's Freedom Practices'. Amsterdam University
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