OPPRESSION OF PATRIARCHAL POWER IN BHAL CHANDRA NEMADE'S KOSLA

The writing in Indian English Novel has witnessed the issues dealing with the synchronic and diachronic
transformation. Needless to say that the space for women in it is also changing from time to time. The
writers have tried their level best to grapple with the culture and context specific problem and issues related
women. A notable development is the emergence of an entire school of women novelists in Indian Writing in
English. Ruth Prawar Jhabvala, Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal and Anita Desai are the leading
figures in Post- Independence period. The present paper focuses the most celebrated Marathi novel Kosla
(1963) written by Bhalchandra Nemade, Janpeeth Awardee 2015. The first critic of a literary work is the
writer himself who through his text issues some hits to the creative reader to meditate upon. It is perceptible
in all works of literature and Bhalchandra Nemade's Kosla is no exception to it. The novelist has thrown
away all the required norms of literary writing. The protagonist Pandurang Sangavikar, in fact represents
the novelist himself throughout the plot. He is seen in a deep grief which affects him at the internal level of
mind. In the present novel, the subversive tone is seen missing.