TY - BOOK AU - Mahasweta Devi AU - Radha Chakravarty (tr.) TI - IN THE NAME OF THE MOTHER SN - 9788170462118 U1 - F PY - 2011////01/01 CY - Culcuuta PB - Seagull KW - Mahāśvetā Debī, -- 1926-2016 -- Translations into English KW - Fiction KW - Fiction- Bengali KW - Short stories, Bengali KW - 18.65 middle and modern Indian language and/or literature KW - Bengali N1 - The stories in this volume are linked by a common thread: the idea of the mother they represent a range of responses to the concept of the maternal, exposing how the traditional deification of motherhood in india often conceals a collective exploitation and attempt to restrict women to their socially prescribed roles while denying them the right to articulate their individual needs and desires ER -