Discuss the character of budhiya in the short story the shroud
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Shroud by Munshi Premchand is the story of two chamar (dalit) characters Ghisu and Madhav who are poor and lazy to do work. Ghisu is the father and Madhav is the son and both do not want to work. Both just want to relax and rest all the time. What happened that the wife of Madhav Bhudhiya is pregnant and father & son have not money for the treatment of her. And the next morning she died due to the lack of treatment and miserable situation. After the death they have to arrange some money for the funeral but they have not money so they arrange some money by beg to their neighbor. They went to buy a Shroud for her funeral but rather purchasing the shroud they spend the money to drink and eat some pakode and the story ends.
Answer:
Budhiya is the wife of Madhav who is the son of Ghisu.
Explanation:
After one year of marriage, Madhav's wife Budhia was groaning with labor pains and outside the hut both father and son were roasting the potatoes they had stolen from somewhere. It was a cold winter night. The village was sleeping. Inside the hut Budhia was crying in pain.There are many reasons for the death of a baby in the womb. Poverty is the cause of death of both Budhia and her unborn child. Budhia is not a slacker like her father-in-law and husband. 'Ever since this woman came, she had laid the foundation of the system in this family and used to feed these two idiots.Orissa's four-and-a-half-year-old marathon runner Budhia Singh has set a new record by covering a distance of 65 km in seven hours and two minutes.When Budhia started his race from Puri, a large number of people were present there. People encouraged Budhia and raised slogans in his support.
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