"Everybody is in need of the death of somebody or the other to leave behind the imprint of power."


K.R.Meera's Hangwoman : The art of the executioner.

A heavy, melodramatic sigh?
Meera, Scheherazade like, weaves a tale of epic proportion with strands of history--ancient and contemporary-- myths and reality that keeps us beguiled.
Hangwoman is the story of twenty-two-year-old Chetna Grddha Mullic. ("Writing, indeed is my Chetna," says Meera) and Sanjeev Kumar Mitra, an overambitious journalist...

Quotes:

"Whenever I visit Nimtala Ghat, I feel that the moment when the clock of life begins to tick backwards is what we call death. After that moment, those who were flesh and blood turn into reflections in the mirror of life. If death is the moment in which we walk away from relationships, then each person dies several times a single lifetime!."

“I remember, when I was in class eight, Jyoti Basu initiated Shilpayan, inviting industrialists, and Thakuma knew what it would bring. Traders arrive by water – they are not of the land, she declared in anger. To seize the land, they need, power.”

Al though I found it tedious in phases, a commendable work still and, an unforgettable experience.

Hangwoman: A heavy, melodramatic sigh?

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