Open AccessResistance of Widows in Deepa Mehta's Water
Author(s) -
Bimala Sharma
Publication year - 2020
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2091-1637
DOI - 10.3126/litstud.v33i0.38031
Subject(s) - resistance (ecology) , power (physics) , gender studies , sociology , physics , ecology , biology , thermodynamics
Deepa Mehta’s Water (2005), set in 1938 explores the lives of widows in an ashram in Varanasi, India, narrates the story of bodies that enter into the machinery of power.