Volume 5 | Issue 2 | June-July  2011 |

The Dark Abode: an Oriya novel by Sarojini Sahoo

Selina Hossain

     But this does not suffice to tell the full tale. Different complexity of life as in the novel, tell us of the loneliness of life. The suppressed desire, even while living in a family, sometimes creates a knotty problem in our life. The hero and heroine wished to quench their thirst. Drinking the water they come back to their respective circles for there is no way else than to return. For a human being perpetually revolves round the circle. The two characters in the novel, after many blows and counter blows, decide that they would wait. In this world full of conflict man is always companionless, lonely. In a rarefied courtyard after the festival night he realizes that he is very lonely. Safique the hero, when send email to his lover, Kuki to wait, she thinks, ‘She would wait for his love until her hairs grew grey, until her skin gets slackened. She would sit till her eye sight would fade. She would wait for Safique for an eternity.’

    Leaving the family aside, the clash between the individual and the State has become prominent in this novel. The course of life of two different citizens of two States does not give any other solution than waiting. How the State obstructs and suppresses the individual freedom has been shown in the version of Safique, the painter. 
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