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Summary of The short-story the empty chestby Indira Goswami

Answer 1

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Indira Goswami's short story "The Empty Chest" is set in Assam, "on the fringes of the cremation ground under the shrine of Kamakhya." The protagonist is Toradoi, a woman who lives with her children in a shack and ekes out an existence for her small family now that her husband has been taken to jail.

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Answer 2

the empty chest -by Indira Goswami

• it is a true story of a coffin found in the cremation ground.
• toradoi lives near the cremation ground and one day she finds an empty coffin stained with blood.
• she came to know that the coffin was of her lover saru bopa, whom she loved immensely.
• saru was the son of the zamindar for whom she used to work. they were in love with each other and wanted to marry but unfortunately, they couldn't.
• she brought the coffin inside her house and got dressed in whatever way she seemed fine,
• she then got inside the box in order to relive the memories of her love.
• her brother was the policeman who told her that he wasn't faithful to her and was getting married to another women.
• when the reality strike in, toradoi put the coffin out of her house with the help of her two kids.
• earlier, there used to be a man waiting for toradoi everyday outside her house for sleeping with her.
• but after that day when she was ready, she found that there was actually no one.

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