Jump to navigation. Dr Vijaya, the paediatrician, turns to Amma, Janu's uncaring mother-in-law, and declares bluntly, "This child is deffinnitely mentally handicapped. There is no doubt, see she has all the features, high arched palate, tongue-thrust, in fact I think she will never even speak. How Indian society makes a woman feel guilty for producing a child with a disability - "You must have done something bad in a past life" - is at the core of Ancient Promises Penguin , Jaishree's debut novel. It is so heavily drawn from the author's own life that the publishers at first wanted to market it as an autobiography.
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All her efforts to endear herself to the family of her husband, which includes even begetting a child who is supposed to bridge the gap between herself and her new family, are in vain. She starts rebelling against the snobbish conventions of the family, and slowly there emerges the first faint outline of a plan of escape.
She manages a foreign scholarship to go abroad, and it is then, when she is almost ready to get out, that the panicky husband and in-laws try their best to stop her. The last step in this man oeuvre is to take away her daughter Riya. Still she goes to London and completes her course. These are her stolen days of perfect happiness with her lover Arjun.
But she must return to Kerala to get her Riya back, because she believes that a life of happiness built on the pain and sufferings of other people cannot last. There is a hole in her soul which only her daughter can fill. Thus her return to Kerala is at the risk of losing even the only other happiness of her life, that is, Arjun. Back in Kerala, things suddenly turn out in her favour, she gets the divorce, Riya is returned to her, and she is ready to start a new life with Arjun.
This paper analyses how Janaki, a woman molded according to the dictates of Manusmrithi emerges as a new empowered woman who controls her destiny. Janu disrupts the mould in which she has been created by the patriarchal society. Men women struggle existence and love life. Richa Pandey,Dr. Aprajita Sharma.
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All her efforts to endear herself to the family of her husband, which includes even begetting a child who is supposed to bridge the gap between herself and her new family, are in vain. She starts rebelling against the snobbish conventions of the family, and slowly there emerges the first faint outline of a plan of escape. She manages a foreign scholarship to go abroad, and it is then, when she is almost ready to get out, that the panicky husband and in-laws try their best to stop her. The last step in this manoeuvre is to take away her daughter Riya.
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All her efforts to endear herself to the family of her husband, which includes even begetting a child who is supposed to bridge the gap between herself and her new family, are in vain. She starts rebelling against the snobbish conventions of the family, and slowly there emerges the first faint outline of a plan of escape. She manages a foreign scholarship to go abroad, and it is then, when she is almost ready to get out, that the panicky husband and in-laws try their best to stop her. The last step in this man oeuvre is to take away her daughter Riya. Still she goes to London and completes her course. These are her stolen days of perfect happiness with her lover Arjun.
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