Fetishization Of Women By Male Characters In Amrita Pritam’s Short Stories:‘Chammak Challo’ And ‘Karma Wali’

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Anjali Sharma

Indifferent, Realities, Chasm, Extremities, Miserable.

Abstract: Amrita Pritam’s works encapsulate the essence of the bygone era of partition and the massacre which led to upheaval and disruption in the lives of numerous people who passed on the tales of partition and its horrors to the forthcoming generations. Amrita Pritam’s quintessential work ‘A Slice of Life’ narrates many such tales amongst which ‘Chammak Challo’ extends and distinguishes itself in the treatment of wealth and women. The male Characters in both the stories are portrayed as shadows which are manipulating women and their identity. Hukamchand as a father fails explicitly when he burdens Challo with the responsibility of their livelihood. Ratna her beloved shows empathy and tries to protect her from the men at the bus station but his own financial limitations as a newspaper seller shackles him. When Challo fulfills her duty as a daughter it is marked by a huge cost that she has to pay as a woman and as a daughter as after getting raped by a man she is given ten rupees as a price or cost of having her without her consent when she buys groceries for a ravishing meal, she is depicted deadly , benumbed and indifferent to her surroundings while the reality of her life changes forever her doors get closed for love in her mind as she is no more shown besotted for her beloved Ratna. The condition of refugee women in the post partition era are insinuated in both the stories by the dilapidated reality of their dreams and desires as “careworn Woman”. Both the women Challo and Karma Wali are shown as sole bread earners of the family who are exposed to the patriarchal world rather brutally and taste the bitter truth of life at such tender age . However Challo’s fate remains open ended in the story as she is shown sinking in the chasm and bog of cruel reality which struck her with tons of bricks while Karma Wali is seen navigating through the ravine bluntly accepting who she is with confidence . Both are plunged into extremities and are exploited by men who mean them most but one comes unscathed while the other gets benumbed and drowns with the burdens of realities.

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Anjali Sharma (December-2025). Fetishization Of Women By Male Characters In Amrita Pritam’s Short Stories:‘Chammak Challo’ And ‘Karma Wali’. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 10(12), c1-c2. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2512201.pdf

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