Rituparna Chakraborty

Women: Problems, Empowerment and Identity

Preface Each of Rabindranath Tagore’s nine novels, built around the themes of family, community and gender, has at its centre stage a principal female protagonist. The only exception is Gora, where the protagonist is a man named Gourmohan or Gora. We find in Tagore’s earlier works, child-like girl heroines or naive marginalized women confronted with social/parental antagonism.