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    Indira Goswami's novel Pages Stained with Blood depicts the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi following the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The novel follows a young Assamese professor living in Delhi and documents her experiences during the violent pogrom through first-person accounts, newspaper reports, and her relationships. Her notebook containing notes for a book on Delhi becomes stained with the blood of her Sikh friend Santokh Singh during the riots. The novel generated controversy in Assam for its depiction of a relationship between the professor and a rickshaw puller.

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    Indira Goswami's novel Pages Stained with Blood depicts the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi following the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The novel follows a young Assamese professor living in Delhi and documents her experiences during the violent pogrom through first-person accounts, newspaper reports, and her relationships. Her notebook containing notes for a book on Delhi becomes stained with the blood of her Sikh friend Santokh Singh during the riots. The novel generated controversy in Assam for its depiction of a relationship between the professor and a rickshaw puller.

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    Pages Stained with

    Blood

    Pages Stained With Blood (2001) originally


    published as Tej Aru Dhulire Dhushorito
    Prishtha is an Assamese novel by Indira
    Goswami that depicts the gory Sikh
    pogrom [1] in Delhi as an aftermath of the
    assassination of the Indian Prime Minister
    Indira Gandhi in June 1984. First published
    in Assamese in Goriyoshi literary journal in
    episodic form, it generated controversy in
    conservative Assam due to the love story
    between a professor and a riksha puller.
    Pages Stained With Blood

    First edition cover

    Author Indira Goswami

    Translator Pradip Acharya

    Cover artist Geeta Dharmarajan

    Country India

    Language English

    Genre Assamese Literature


    Publisher Katha Books

    Media type Print (Hardcover),

    Pages 337

    ISBN 81-87649-11-9

    LC Class MLCS 2003/00915


    PK1569.G578

    It is pieced together from first person


    accounts[2] of victims, newspaper reports
    and the unnamed female protagonist's
    relationship with the various men in her life
    during the early eighties of Delhi, India.
    Plot summary
    The story follows a young Assamese
    woman who teaches at the University of
    Delhi and is an author. She is busy writing a
    book on Delhi and regularly jots down
    anything that crosses her mind. The
    Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple
    in Amritsar brings sudden twist to the
    novel and the protagonist plunges
    headlong into the crisis for most of the
    people she is close to are Sikhs. At last,
    her book is drenched in Santokh Singh's
    blood and she loses all her recorded
    material.
    Major symbolisms
    Thin Line Between Fact and Fiction It is a
    novel with the character of a memoirs, and
    often the protagonist is identified as Indira
    Goswami. In several interviews[3] she
    stresses that there is no difference
    between fact and fiction in that book.

    Sexuality For the conservative Assamese


    society, it created a stir due to the frank
    confession of sexual attraction the first-
    person narrator feels to Santokh Singh, the
    rickshaw puller, with whom she visits the
    riot-affected areas such as Jahangirpuri,
    Shakti Nagar.
    Delhi The City of Delhi is the most
    important character in the novel. Though
    the backdrop is of immense political and
    social crisis, the author attempts to
    complete her book by visiting various
    places such as Mirza Ghalib's house, the
    prostitutes of GB Road – the famous red
    light area of Delhi. Her preoccupation is
    often the remnants of Mughal Delhi and
    the Delhi of the dispossessed.

    Blood Blood is the most importance


    metaphor and presence in the novel. The
    hair-raising accounts of the riot-affected
    areas and that the writer's notes are at last
    drenched one night as a result of which
    she is unable to complete her book on
    Delhi brings the horror of the riot very
    close, almost to the interiors.

    Legacy
    It is used as a textbook in several
    universities in India. The current critical
    discourse surrounding the novel is often
    laudatory.[4] The new generation of writers
    and intellectuals celebrate this novel as a
    classic in Assamese literature.[5]

    See also
    Assamese literature
    The Man from Chinnamasta
    Delhi
    1984 anti-Sikh riots
    Indira Gandhi assassination
    Operation Blue Star

    References
    1. Husain, Intizar, The Plight of Sikhs (http://w
    ww.pakistanlink.com/Letters/2003/May/2
    3/02.html) Archived (https://web.archive.o
    rg/web/20080220192545/http://www.paki
    stanlink.com/Letters/2003/May/23/02.htm
    l) 2008-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
    2. Dev Sen, Antara, India Today Review. Delhi
    1984 (http://www.india-today.com/itoday/2
    0020617/books2.shtml)
    3. Interview in Pratilipi (http://pratilipi.in/200
    9/03/stained-with-blood-an-interview-with-i
    ndira-goswami/)
    4. Indira Goswami and Women's
    Empowerment (http://indiragoswami.blogs
    pot.com/2008/10/indira-goswami-and-wo
    mens-empowerment.html) Archived (http
    s://web.archive.org/web/2012022719504
    8/http://indiragoswami.blogspot.com/200
    8/10/indira-goswami-and-womens-empow
    erment.html) 27 February 2012 at the
    Wayback Machine, by Malashri Lal
    5. Literary Galaxy, The Assam Tribune, May
    2009 (http://www.assamtribune.com/may2
    909/mosaic1.html)
    External links
    Stained with Blood: An Interview With
    Indira Goswami (http://pratilipi.in/2009/
    03/stained-with-blood-an-interview-with-
    indira-goswami/)
    Revisiting 1984 through Assamese
    Fiction (http://www.worldsikhnews.com/
    15%20April%202009/Image/for%20we
    b/Page%2020-21%20for%20web.pdf)
    The Plight of Sikhs, by Intizar Hussain (ht
    tps://web.archive.org/web/2008022019
    2545/http://www.pakistanlink.com/Lette
    rs/2003/May/23/02.html)
    Retrieved from
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
    title=Pages_Stained_with_Blood&oldid=10696591
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