Author : S U Paniyadi
Publisher : Manipal Universal Press
ISBN 13 : 938246087X
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (824 download)
Book Synopsis Sati Kamale by : S U Paniyadi
Download or read book Sati Kamale written by S U Paniyadi and published by Manipal Universal Press. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eponymous novel is centred on Kamale, who is an embodiment of wifely virtue. For fifteen long years Kamale lives the life of a widow to the outside world, nurturing the hopes of reuniting with the husband one day. Alone in the room, each night she wears her marks of a married woman with the dagger gifted by Umesha next to her. It could be seen as an exposition on the then existing indigenous discourse in India in the 19th century and early 20th century. Kamale, in her rigorous commitment and in retrieving her husband from “death”, is fashioned after Savithri in an intertextual reference to Mahabharata’s episode of “Satyavan and Savithri”. The novel might look conservative for the present-day reader, but it is a representative literary work of the time when Paniyadi, among many others, wanted to regain the independent status of the Tulu language which had somehow slipped out of its pedestal. Sati Kamale is a novel which seeks to pit a self-conscious nation against colonial attacks in the form of modern education and several reformist projects that educated Indians had taken a fancy for. S U Paniyady, a strong nationalist himself, makes no secret as to where his sympathies lie. The chief protagonist of the novel is a woman, who fiercely upholds wifely virtues even when she lives in a limbo of doubt that her husband could have been martyred. She spurns the demand for remarriage and insists on remaining steadfastly devoted to the memory of her husband, which finally helps her to recover him in the rarefied realm of the Himalayas, much in the same way the legendary Sati Savitri won back the life of Satyavan. Creation of this modern mythology serves a nationalist purpose of upholding the moral that our inner strength can alone protect us from infections from outside.
