Volume II,Issue IV, March 2026
Volume-II, Issue-IV, March, 2026 |
Received: 25.03.2026 | Accepted: 27.03.2026 | ||
Published Online: 31.03.2026 | Page No: | ||
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.2.issue.04W. | |||
আশুতোষ মুখোপাধ্যায়ের ‘দীপ
জ্বেলে যাই’: অভিনয়ের আড়ালে এক নারীর ভালোবাসা ও আত্মত্যাগের গল্প
রাধা গোবিন্দ নসিপুরী,
গবেষক, বাংলা বিভাগ,
গৌহাটি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, গুয়াহাটি, অসম, ভারত |
Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay’s Deep Jwele Jai: A Story of a Woman’s Love and Self-Sacrifice Behind the Veil of Acting Radha Gobinda Nasipuri, Research Scholar, Department of Bengali, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
Ashutosh Mukherjee was one of the greatest fiction writers in the 20th-century Bengali Literature. His story ‘Deep Jwele Jai’ created a lot of sensation at that time. The narrative of this text revolved around a mental hospital and a nurse. The chief medical officer of this hospital was Colonel Pakrashi. He was a psychiatrist. Three of his patients suffered from mental disorder due to trauma of betrayal in love. He was running an experiment to treat these three patients. The new experiment of Dr. Colonel was to cure the patients by an act of romantic love. Since they had lost their mental stability through betrayal in love, it was only the play-acting of love that could bring them back to their normal state. The nurse Rekha Mitra was assigned the duty of curing them back to normalcy through a romantic play-acting. She has made the new experiment successful by curing the two patients Samaresh Chakraborty and Madhav Some. Next arrived Amar Dutta who had the same history of losing mental balance due to betrayal in love. Rekha Mitra has cured him as well through her love and nursing. From the viewpoint of Dr. Colonel and other nurses she has done a role-playing in this case, but in reality she cured each of these patients through real love and sacrifice without paying any heed to Colonel’s medical instructions. It is as if she lighted the lamp of love and affection within her heart and helped the patients to transcend the world of darkness and reach the world of light. She did not get any reciprocation from any of these persons and hence she turned a mental patient herself in that hospital. This paper attempts to analyze and find how Rekha Mitra’s emotions of love and sacrifice transcended her ability of role-playing. | ||
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