Mahasweta Devi is undoubtedly one of the most celebrated Bengali writers who fiercely and ebulliently propagated for the equal rights of women in the patriarchal society. She is indeed the champion for the downtrodden, marginalized, and subjugated feminine community. She boldly laid bare the cruel, harsh, and pathetic realities of human life where women are treated like anything and taken for granted in every sphere of life. She excoriated and highly disparaged the outmoded and decrepit practices of human society where female is considered merely as a commodity to serve the family, as an object to satiate one's carnal desires, and as a docile creature who is prone to face unbound and unbridled submissiveness and oppression in the hands of dominating manhood. She is thriving in a society that is extensively patriarchal and leaves rather a scanty scope for her liberty, independence, and autonomy. Through this research paper, I am outrightly committed to shed light on the malpractices and terrible realities of human society while laying complete focus on the three short stories by Mahashweta Devi. These are Draupadi, Breast Giver and Behind the Bodice, where one can apparently look at the paradoxical position and representation of women in society and their tales of constant repression and endurance, and resistance. This paper is solely aimed at delineating the prolonged outworn tradition of feminine repression and subordination in male-dominated societies and their muted and silenced struggle in the anticipation of attaining liberation.
Keywords: Subjugation, Marginalization, Discrimination, Resistance, Dalitt etc.
