A Deep Insight into Mother Existence

Mahasweta Devi’s fiction problematizes the socio-cultural construct of manhood in India. The ideology of motherhood in India has been pervasive and it takes on much larger dimensions, where it translates into the determining factor of a woman’s position in society. According to Kosambi, “Mother worship in usually an amalgamation of Vedic principles with pre-Aryan tribal cults of the mother-goddess, sometime going back to matriarchal forms of society”