Amitava Bhattacharya
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“There is no other alternative, Huzoor. It is the mandate of Mother Chandi that a married woman only can become a Bhairabi, and three days after marriage, a Bhairabi cannot touch her husband anymore. So it has become a practice to arrange for a poor man from a distant place to marry a girl, before she is installed as a Bhairabi, and the man leaves after three days with enough money as reward. No one would see him ever again.” Jibananda laughed. “What are you talking about,”
― Selected Novels of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
― Selected Novels of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
“There is no other alternative, Huzoor. It is the mandate of Mother Chandi that a married woman only can become a Bhairabi, and three days after marriage, a Bhairabi cannot touch her husband anymore. So it has become a practice to arrange for a poor man from a distant place to marry a girl, before she is installed as a Bhairabi, and the man leaves after three days with enough money as reward. No one would see him ever again.” Jibananda laughed. “What are you talking”
― Selected Novels of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
― Selected Novels of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
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