![]() ![]() The last two women he meets live close to him. Srikant accuses her of not being faithful even though they knew each other as young children. Then suddenly, Lakshmi arrives on the scene and fireworks follow. He gets personaly invoved with Chandra, the leader of the devotees, to the extent of proposing marriage. Journeys, he strays into an ashram inhabited by only female devotees. As a child, he idealizes the chaste Annada Didithe epitom Translated for the first time into English, Saratchandra's Srikanta was first published over seventy years ago and could perhaps be called. Finally, he goes back to his roots and finds that the man who first advised him on how to get out of his complexes, dying. Srikanta, the narrator, is an aimless drifter, a passive spectator who cannot survive without the support of an individual stronger than himself. Next, he gets enchanted with a Bharatnatyam dancer, Lakshmi, and now a high ranking prostitute whom he meets by chance in Luknow where he is staying with a friend. He is staring into the eyes of the widow and telling her all kinds of things about her honesty and her truthfulness. Now comes the person with whom Srikanta has his first emotional upheaval. The man dies on the sets of the play as he is ![]() He goes to live with his friends, who are also in the midst of a marital split. He runs away from home because of a dispute between his father and mother. Srikanta (Part 1) by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Chapter IV Chapter V IV A FTER walking along the banks of the Ganges with steps weighed down by an overpowering fatigue, I arrived home with red eyes and a blanched and haggard face. ![]() The story of ‘Srikanta’ is more or less a replay of all his adventures as a young man, largely with the ladies. ![]()
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