Debriefing Social Conditioning and Subjugation: A Review of Sanjukta Dasgupta’s Lakshmi Unbound

Abstract

Saptarshi Mallick reviews Sanjukta Dasgupta’s fifth poetry collection, Lakshmi Unbound. The poems deal with the theme of social conditioning of women and their resultant subjugation; the theme of feminist emancipation is echoed by not relating the women as goddesses but rather seen as humans. The assigning of the sacred status to the woman as a deity itself dissociates the essential humanness in them and thereby imposes certain moral conduct. The review portrays the socio-cultural themes of the poems.