Still She Cried (novel)

      “Yet there the nightingale

      Filled all the desert with inviolable voice

      And still she cried, and still the world pursues,

      ‘Jug Jug’ to dirty ears.”

– T. S. Eliot [The Waste Land]

Anuradha Bhattacharyya, Still She Cried, a novel

This book is on the subject of impotence and infertility as these are rarely represented in literature with all the psychopathology involved. Impotence is not uncommon but very few people know the disasters associated with it, specially the pathological ones. Similarly, very few people know the ills of contraception. We rarely recognize perversion and always unconsciously cope with it.

Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi's Best Book of the Year Award goes to Still She Cried.

Parul finds her husband Bijit very cooperative in many ways but she is irked by one little lapse in the marital relationship she otherwise enjoys. She overlooks her sexual needs until Sandy comes along. The novel is about how she tries to resolve the difficulties within the marriage and the unexpected outcome.