What is it in Ek Chadar Maili Shi
Of Rajinder Singh Bedi's novel
Translated by Khushwant Singh
As 'I Take This Woman',
Dealing with the drunken husband,
Bad luck, dowry system,
Family quarrels and feuds
And above all the life of a woman,
What is it in her destiny, poor lot?
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