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| Article Name : | | | THE PREDICAMENT OF UNDERDOGS IN JHUMPA LAHIRI'S A REAL DURWAN AND THE TREATMENT OF BIBI HALDAR | | Author Name : | | | Darbarsing Dhansing Girase | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | ROR-754 | | Article : | |  | Author Profile | | Abstract : | | | A civilized society aspires to create an environment where all members of society have equal chance to come up in life irrespective of their social standing, position, strengths and weaknesses. This perception and expectation however seems to be sometimes contradicted by ground realities where society creates conditions in which the weak, helpless, powerless are rendered misfits and turned into underdogs leading to their subservience and powerlessness. The stories titled A Real Durwan and The Treatment of Bibi Haldar in Jhumpa Lahiri's short story collection Interpreter of Maladies(1999) seem to reflect this contradiction of human life. The characters of Boori Ma and Bibi Haldar, respectively from the aforementioned two stories, come to represent as underdogs in the given socio-cultural set up. If being a refugee is what renders Boori Ma an underdog, a mysterious illness and pangs of unfulfilled desires is what make Bibi Haldar's life miserable. An attempt is made here to analyse the situations and circumstances that turn the two characters into underdogs, the way they face their predicament as underdogs and the way it affects their individual lives. The discriminatory norms of the society, its beliefs, attitudes and tendencies seem to be by and large responsible for the misfortune of two characters. | | Keywords : | | - Bibi Haldar
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