Shodh

In Shodh unlike her other novels Taslima Nasrin seeks to revolutionize the concept of love and marriage in the so-called elite yet tradition-bound societies. She effects this through a transformation of roles assigned to women—as lover wife mother and daughter-in-law. The story of Jhumur’s marriage to Haroon therefore goes beyond the study of a marriage or the fate of a person and raises issues such as: Is love possible without self-respect What is the relationship among love desire and marriage In what way can the established familial relationships be redefined... In this novel as much as in her other non-fictional works Nasrin’s personal experience breathes life into the narrative.