Can anyone tell me abou the Dark room story by R.K. narayan in 150 words
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The Dark Room (1938) presents a picture of domestic disharmony. Ramani, the office secretary of Engladia Insurance Company in Malgudi is very domineering and cynical in his ways. He governs his house according to his own sweet will. As he is always irritable, the atmosphere in his house is generally gloomy and his wife, Savitri, his children and servants are always remain in a state of terror.
Savitri is a true symbol of traditional Indian womanhood. Savitri, whose place is in the dark room (kitchen), is a timid, silent suffering and sacrificing Indian wife. She is very beautiful and deeply devoted to her husband. Ramani, however, does not respond to her sentiments even with ordinary warmth. Through they have been married for fifteen years; his wife has received nothing from her husband but rebukes and abuses. Even his children get more rebukes from him than expressions of his fatherly love.
Soon there arrives at the scene a beautiful lady, Shanta Bai, who has deserted her husband and joined Engladia Insurance Company. Ramani succumbs to her beauty and coquettish ways. Ramani spends nights in Shanta Bai’s company. Savitri feels disturbed but she “decided that it would be better to suffer in silence than to venture question.” When Gangu, the talkative forward wife a teacher tells her about Ramani’s infidelity, she sulks only in self-pity. “Perhaps I am old and ugly. How can I help it? I have borne children and slaved for the house.” She pathetically prepares herself to win him back by reviving her charm. How pathetically she longs that he may come and “love her as boisterously as he loved her in the first week of their marriage.”