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Exploring Manik Bandapadhyay's 'The Final Solution': A Feminist Perspective on Partition Trauma -- englit.in

The Final Solution Analysis The partition has been one of the traumatic events in the history of the Indian subcontinent. Twentieth century’s major figure Manik Bandapadhyay was marked by his acute poverty and frequent illness, who wrote, ‘The Final Solution’(1988). The story demonstrates “dark, and obscure” aspects. And it also rambles around an impoverished family that migrates to West Bengal after the partition of Bengal. In the story, Mallika meets a pimp, Pramatha, who has bad intentions on women. Consequently, we utilize Bandapadhyay’s work to express the spiritual desiccations, and bringing out the absurdity of human existence. At the inception of the short story, everyone spends the days and nights on a railway platform. Mallika, Bhushan (her husband), her children, and her sister-in-law Asha “had a place the length of one spread mattress.” The next morning, Mallika and her family had nothing to eat, and her children wer

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