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Genre. Novel. Publication date. 1873. Media type. Print. Bishbriksha (English: The Poison Tree) is a Bengali novel written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. The novel was published serially in Bangadarshan. It deals with widow remarriage.
Bishabriksha is a 1983 film based on a novel by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. It tells the story of Kunda, a beautiful woman who marries Suryamukhi's brother Taracharan, but faces hardships and misunderstandings.
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Tagore's progressive take on the plight of widows rebukes Chatterjee's retrograde portrayal of widow remarriage.
Like Rabindranath Tagore's চোখের বালি / chokher baali "A Speck of Sand in the Eye" (1903), Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's novel বিষবৃক্ষ / viShavRikSha, "The Poison Tree" (1873) takes as its subject the position of widows in Bengali Hindu society. The central situation of the novels is similar: a married man falls in love with a young widow living in ...
In 18th and 19th C. India, girls were often married off very young, even before reaching puberty. Typically their husbands were much older. After her marriage, a girl would continue to live with her parents until menarche, after which she was sent to live with her husband. Given the disparity in age between the spouses, a considerable number of gir...
The wealthy and handsome Nagendra is married to Suryamukhi. As an act of charity, he also provides a home for a young widow, Kunda. Nagendra and Kunda fall in love. The self-sacrificing Suryamukhi encourages Nagendra to take Kunda as his second wife, but runs away from home immediately after the marriage. This causes Nagendra to realize how much he...
In The Poison Tree, Suryamukhi is depicted as a devoted wife entirely subservient to her husband. While Kunda's bleak life as a young widow is depicted sensitively, Kunda herself is rather wet; Sudhir Chandra comments that she "lacks even the will to want her own welfare" (p. WS-56). Tagore's portrayal of the wife and the widow inverts Chatterjee's...
Sanskrit /v/ being assimilated to Bengali /b/, the Bengali script does not differentiate between the two letters. Likewise, the inherent or default vowel of Sanskrit, /ə/, becomes /o/ in Bengali. Hence the title of Chatterjee's novel is transliterated, interchangeably, Vishavriksha or Bishabriksha or Bishabriksho or Bishavriksha or Vishobrikshaor, ...
Chandra, Sudhir. “Conflicted Beliefs and Men's Consciousness about Women: Widow Marriage in Later Nineteenth Century Indian Literature.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 22, no. 44, 1987, pp. WS...
Bishabriksha - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. Bishabriksha (poison tree) is set in Bankim Chandra’s own time. Nagendra gives refuge to a young widow Kundanandini in his own house, who is orphaned after the death of her father. He becomes attracted to the girl and is torn between his devoted wife Suryamukhi and the beautiful Kundanandini.
Oct 21, 2017 · Books. Bishabriksha: ( Bengali Edition ) Bishabriksha (poison tree) is set in Bankim Chandra's own time. Nagendra gives refuge to a young widow Kundanandini in his own house, who is orphaned after the death of her father. He becomes attracted to the girl and is torn between his devoted wife Suryamukhi and the beautiful Kundanandini.
