analyse the role of Mita in the Refugee
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Asif Currimbhoy believes in the fact that literature is meant to represent the society.
As a social critic, he exhibits his excellence in portraying the social condition as
prevailing in the contemporary time. Jr. Martin C. Caroll has also commented that the
chief function of literature is “to reflect with meaning the totality of the contemporary
human condition.”1 We see that an artist brings out social truths and that literature is
a reflection of social process. Thus the literature influenced by its milieu reflects the
contemporary social structure. Asif Currimbhoy is a close follower of the above
mentioned view. Each play has a touch of reality due to its connection with some
major event or incident of the past or the contemporary time. He targets the impact
of the social issues over the lives of people. Walter Meserve remarks:
Currimbhoy‟s plays are concerned wih the problems of man
everywhere. He lends breath to his thought…even when he deals with
India, he becomes the voice of universal revolt and anguish screaming
itself hoarse at the seemingly immovable societies around the world.2
The plays of Currimbhoy are based on the issues related to the society,
politics, religion, human life and relations etc. He takes up particular incident
happened in the country and presents it in a realistic way. As the plays Inquilab, The
Refugee, The Hungry Ones are based on any particular issue in the nation and its
impact on the society. The Bengal Trilogy by Asif Currimbhoy includes Inquilab
(1970), The Refugee (1971), Sonar Bangla (1972). It has been named as The
Bengal Trilogy because the plays in it deal with Bengal and its problems at different