Isolation of Women in the Indira Goswami’s novel ‘The Blue- Necked God’

Abstract

A bold narrator of human situation and social phenomena, Dr.Goswami carved a niche for herself at an early age. She authored over 25 novels and hundreds of short stories. She did several research works on the Ramayana. She enriched the Indian literary world through her translated works from Assamese to English, Hindi and also from other language to Assamese. She writes about what she has directly observed and tried on her pulses. Her novel the blue necked god was published in 1976. The subject of her stories are generally the outcaste or the waste of the society. Whether it be the Brahmin widows, or share croppers and poor peasants, or forsaken lovers, despondent youth, victims of riot or helpless animals, there has always been an element of pathos in her characters and her fictions. It is this pathos that provides a fundamental element of beauty to her fiction.