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| Paper Title: | Lonely Lives and Unseen Struggles: Exploring the Depths of Isolation through the Lens of Indic Knowledge in a Few of Satyajit Ray’s Standalone Short Stories |
| Authors Name: | Sanchita Dutta |
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| Published Paper Id: | IJRTI2507015 |
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| Abstract: | This paper will deviate from the assembly-line interpretation of the term indigenous with a specific jan-jaati and look at the term 'indigenous' from a socio-cultural standpoint, with time, location, habitation and hence, class being its principal markers. Consequently, it would delve into the moral and psychological complexities of the indigenous community of the post-independence Bangali 'bhadralok'. In his fictional world, Ray unveiled a few bhadraloks and the weathered terrain of their minds, where moral turpitude exists in an uneasy truce with uprightness, arising from an epistemological position rooted to this land. As Uddalak Mukherjee refers to them as ‘Twilight Men,’ which will be explored in this paper concerning the psychological and epistemological identity of the average middle-class Bangali (’60s–’80s), its locus in a changing socio-cultural mindscape and its functioning within the enthalpy of their 'own' knowledge system. Patol Babu dreams of fleeting stardom, while elderly Pintu'r Dadu seeks to prove his musical talent to his grandson. Among the young, Shibu turns to ‘pagla’ Photik for help against his ‘rakkhosh’ Math teacher, while heartbroken Tipu mourns the loss of his cherished ‘roopkathā’ books—another casualty of his Math teacher. That kalpanā and vijnāna can coexist may be alien to Western theories of objective knowledge, and Ray subverts that very colonial sense of superiority embedded in Modern (Western) science through his eccentric adolescents. Ray's bhadralok often finds himself at a crossroads between his svabhāva and the lure of materialism stemming from mithyā and saṁsārikamāyā. Lobha pitted against bodha and saṃskāra egg him on towards conflict. Thus, despite persuasion, Asmanjo Babu refuses to part with his dog. The eternal ātmān (sat-chitt-ānanda) manifests in Ray's Saddananda, the lonesome boy finding wonders in the tiniest of nature's living creatures. |
| Keywords: | Bhadralok, Twilight Men, Saṃskāra, Roopkathā, Kalpanā, Vijnāna |
| Cite Article: | "Lonely Lives and Unseen Struggles: Exploring the Depths of Isolation through the Lens of Indic Knowledge in a Few of Satyajit Ray’s Standalone Short Stories", International Journal for Research Trends and Innovation (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no.a119-a124, July-2025, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2507015.pdf |
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