Deep Analysis of Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi: Introduction, Summary, Theme, and Conclusion -- englit.in
Collapsible Sections Introduction One of Mahasweta Devi’s short stories ‘Draupadi’ was first published in 1978 in her collection, “Agnigarbha”. It was translated into English by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, she came out in the Critical Inquiry journal in 1981 and later in her collection Breast Stories in 1997. And in the story, we know about a woman, Dopdi Mehjen, the protagonist of the story, who belongs to the Santhal tribe of West Bengal. She was a character like English folklore “Robin hood”. We see Draupadi and her husband, Dulna murder a wealthy landlords, surja sahu. Summary At the beginning of the story, we see Draupadi or Dopdi as her name appears in dialect, is a “Santhal tribe girl”, who is “vulnerable to injustice but resist the burnt of social oppression and violence with strong will and courage and, even try to deconstruct the age old structures of racial and gender discriminat