Summary of pestilence in nineteenth century calcutta by keki n. daruwalla
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Keki N. Daruwalla is a famous Indian Parsi poet in English who has been noted for the vigour and immediacy of language and his indignant cynicism about the predicament of human society. Pestilence in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta is about a tragic event , an outbreak of Cholera which occurred in the history of Bengal. He takes us through the responses of the different communities to the horror of painful death. According to Bijay Kumar Das , "Social satire , an awareness of the contemporary situations , the illusion about myths seem to be some of the favourite themes of Daruwalla". In this poem the poet speaks about the tragic suffering of the people in Calcutta when it was stricken with cholera during the 19 th century,
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The poem starts with elaborating the condition of the people who were suffering from cholera.
Many people in the city died a horrible death.
The poet also portrays a colonizer who is stuck with people facing the epidemic.
He tries to show how the nature has turned against the humans and not even living the white people.
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