Volume 6 : Issue 1 (2019)

YAJNASENI: THE STORY OF DRAUPADI - THE JOURNEY OF DRAUPADI FROM FIRE TO ICE

Indian women writers are leading a step forward towards the fruitful outcome of their thought process in Indian literature. Their innovative and imaginative works are celebrated and appreciated across the globe. Among the contemporary fiction writings from Orissa Yajnaseni-the story of Draupadi is one of the best known woman’s voices. The writer Pratibha Ray beautifully examines the Mythological character Draupadi and draws the verbal sketch of the heroine Draupadi’s sentiments and social evils prevailing in the society in her novel. By showing Draupadi’s journey from her very birth from fire to death on the Himalaya, the writer come with humanitarian approach towards the most misunderstood woman character of the Mahabharata Draupadi. The writer gives her honour which Draupadi deserves by becoming a strong thread of binding all five Pandavas together in one beautiful garland of relationship. Yajnaseni stands as a concrete example of socio-historical reality. Through the help of mythological character Draupadi Pratibhaji become successful to expose woman’s consciousness and psycho-storms which she holds since many years together. She reconstructs and revisions Draupadi’s character in her own way different from the actual epic character.

humanitarian, sentiments, reconstructs, revision, women’s consciousness. * Author for correspondence

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