Deshpande implores women to discover themselves. Madhu writes the biography Savitribai Indorekar, Doyen of Hindustani music but Madhu doesn’t like writing the biography because she understands that it is not the original order of the story. She thinks that it is she who has the power to make changes in her story. She says, “I can take over Bai’s life ….and make Bai the rebel who rejected the conventions of her times. The feminist who lived her life on her terms. The great artist who struggled and sacrificed everything in the cause of her act. The woman who gave up everything in the cause of her art. The woman who gave up everything - a comfortable home a husband and a family – for love”. (SR 166) People see lives through their memory lane which are sometimes fractured and fragmented.
Madhu secretly admired Munni’s mother and also has a crush towards her. In Madhu’s imagination Bai …show more content…
The women in the Small Remedies are realizations of themselves where they are not tuned up but geared to the society. Both Leela and Savitribai wanted to face their lives when life threw hardships on them. They never looked back as they knew “that what we call truth that the story is about, that it has nothing to do with the truth that emerges through words”. (SR 255). Madhu arrives at the conclusion that life has to move on whatever changes occur in the lives of people. She realizes this when she witnesses an upanayanam ceremony in the Bhavani Temple. The death of the father had not stopped the upanayanam of the boy and his mother is silenced with pain and grief. Madhu observes: "So many of us walking this earth with our pain, our sorrow concealed within ourselves, so many of us hiding our suffering, going about as if all is well, so many of us surviving our loss, our grief. It’s miracle, nothing less than a miracle!" (SR 315). People should live their lives no matter what happens to
Madhu secretly admired Munni’s mother and also has a crush towards her. In Madhu’s imagination Bai …show more content…
The women in the Small Remedies are realizations of themselves where they are not tuned up but geared to the society. Both Leela and Savitribai wanted to face their lives when life threw hardships on them. They never looked back as they knew “that what we call truth that the story is about, that it has nothing to do with the truth that emerges through words”. (SR 255). Madhu arrives at the conclusion that life has to move on whatever changes occur in the lives of people. She realizes this when she witnesses an upanayanam ceremony in the Bhavani Temple. The death of the father had not stopped the upanayanam of the boy and his mother is silenced with pain and grief. Madhu observes: "So many of us walking this earth with our pain, our sorrow concealed within ourselves, so many of us hiding our suffering, going about as if all is well, so many of us surviving our loss, our grief. It’s miracle, nothing less than a miracle!" (SR 315). People should live their lives no matter what happens to