Aruna Chakravarti

Biographical information awaited.

Aruna Chakravarti is the principal of Janki Devi Memorial College, Delhi, and has taught in this college for over forty years.

The Inheritors is her first novel.

Works

• The Inheritors {2004}

---

The Inheritors

The Inheritors follows the shifting life patterns of a family through a mélange of narratives, memories and characters, from the ritual-bound household of an orthodox scholar in a small village in Bengal in 1897 to Germany and Mumbai at the turn of the new millennium.

The unrelenting Puritanism of Nyayaratna Bishnupada Deb Sharma drives his daughter Radharani to insanity and throws into sharp relief his grandson Shibkali’s feeble attempt to break free, ultimately foiled by the weight of generations of adherence to tradition. Giribala voices her resentment against her circumstances through a lifetime of silence, her husband’s sexual perversions. And Pramatha’s depraved radicalism is set against Shashishekhar’s progressive outlook which symbolizes the most significant departure from the stifling constrains of his community. Even as it inherits the dead wood of the pat, each generation strives to liberate itself, setting the stage for the eternal conflict between tradition and change, between a legacy and its inheritors.

Source: Indiaclub.com