I have been thinking of the name Thumbelina-Charit. Charit, is, of course, the biographical genre, and I always think, there is an eulogizing content to it. That's why I like this name. At least for now. Not only are the Bengali post-independence femininity made small, and thumblike, those very small women are eulogized, legitimized, glorified in the national imageries, allegories, everyday patriarchal discourses and practices. So, since it's a book on silenced women, women who participate in their own silencing in multiple ways, the pain of growing up as the daughter of a silenced mother, I think, it makes a lot of sense.
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