The Memsahebs Foot (Kashinath Roy)

Shawkat Hussain (University of Dhaka)

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"Set in the 1990s, in Dhaka, against the backdrop of a military regime, The Memsaheb's Foot is a fascinating story about a young university professor who is also a left radical, his beautiful wife with an uncontrolled temper and many unfulfilled desires, and their nubile maid Phulbanu who blooms into a beautiful young woman herself, seemingly challenging the beauty of her Memsaheb. Seen from the perspective of Phulbanu, the subaltern narrator, this novella is a powerful critique of the gradual corruption of a youthful, idealistic leftist intellectual who slowly succumbs to the lure of big money 'consultancies. Phulbanu, the maid, is witness to the lives of the fascinating couple as they become increasingly prosperous, and her own life as it becomes complicated by a passionate love affair that Memsaheb cannot endure. Originally written in Bangla by Kashinath Roy, this dramatic story has been lovingly translated by his friend Shawkat Hussain, both former professors of English at Dhaka University.”

Shawkat Hussain (University of Dhaka)

Shawkat HUSSAIN is a former professor and chairman of the Department of English at the University of Dhaka where he taught from 1973 to 2013. Later he joined the University of Asia Pacific as the Head of English. After graduating from the University of Dhaka with a First Class both in his BA Honours and MA, he was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship. He completed his MA and PhD from Dalhousie University, Canada in 1976 and 1980. He taught in the US (Montgomery College, MD), was a Senior Fulbright scholar at Indiana University, Bloomington, and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. Shawkat Hussain frequently translates from Bengali to English (poetry and fiction) and is an occasional translator of Rabindranath Tagore.

Title	The Memsahebs Foot (Kashinath Roy)
Author	Shawkat Hussain (University of Dhaka)
Publisher	Shahitya Prakash
Number of Pages	104
Language	English (US)
First Published	JAN 2022