Never miss real stories from India's women. She also highlighted how the desires of women were demolished by household chores and other domestic activities, and this is one of the distinctive feature of her writings. She questioned the orthodox and contradictory expectations from women in contemporary society. All of her lively characters did justice to her efforts, whether a beloved mother with an unborn life in her womb or as an elderly women witnessing the changes in her surroundings, sitting in a prison cell. One of the most celebrated women writers in Bengali literature, Ashapoorna DeviвЂ™s world of writing is an extension of the worlds of the mothers, daughters and brides of our society. I think that every lover of Bengali literature must read the work of the following stupendous women writers who combined aesthetics with issues to produce some of the most compelling literature of all times. In Kachcher Manush, Bhattacharya created a sexually-liberated female protagonist who stands by her decisions, in a society that still judges women for what theyВ wear and what theirВ marital status is, that is definitely an accomplishment.In this exhilarating journey to explore the literary treasures of Bengali culture I have read numerous books written by women writers in Bengali and every time my belief in the power of women escalated a level up. The men in her life are supportive and dependent on her emotionally. She is married but has a child out of wedlock. Indrani, the protagonist,is flawed, vulnerable and heartbreakingly real. This novel is in a mould of a traditional mother-daughter story, but Bhattacharya again chooses to interpret the characters differently. It was later made into an award-winning film by Rituparno Ghosh. But the character that stays with you is the taciturn, idealistic Thammi, JhinukвЂ™s fiercely independent septuagenarian grandmother.

It gleans out prejudices in the urban, middle-class Bengali society through the tribulations faced by the two protagonists, Jhinuk and Romita.

(From left to right: Book covers of Kachcher Manush, Alochchaya and DahanДahan primarily talks about a real-life incident that rocked Kolkata in early 1990s- the molestation of a housewife in the middle of a busy south Kolkata intersection and the subsequent intervention of a young school teacher who tries to bring the perpetrators to the book. The following is a selection of five of her best-loved works. The 65-year-old novelist succumbed to a cardiac arrest in her south-Kolkata residence last night but her worldview lives on in many of us. Through her novels, Suchitra Bhattacharya documented their realities, their aspirations and their silences. The truth is that the women of modern Bengal, the young divorcee from Siliguri, the single mother from Patuli, the homemaker from Burdwan, the ageing widow from Ballygunj, they all owe a lot to Suchitra Bhattacharya. She spoke at length about the genesis of feminist writing in Bengal, the contribution of Ashapurna Debi and Mahasweta Debi, but she never mentioned her sizeable contribution to the cause. When The Indian Express approached veteran Bengali writer Suchitra Bhattacharya to be a part of a panel to choose best young writers in vernacular literature a few years ago, she took it upon herself to introduce us to the works of the new generation of Bengali writers like Sangita Bandyopadhyay and Tilottama Majumdar. Suchitra Bhattacharya (Source: Wikipedia)

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