She hasīeen craving for her father’s affectionate touch since childhood. ![]() Returns her home in a rickshaw, her father’s tender touch haunts her. Meaning: - She doesn’t reassure him on his request. Never allows women to take independent decisions. Retirement and settled down in Hyderabad.Ĭontext:- The narrator meets her father on oneįather strokes her hand and pleads her to move to the town with her family She worked as a LIbrarian at JNU New Delhi and took voluntary Reference:- These lines are extracted from theĬhayadevi. Rickshaw, father’s tender touch haunted me. Octogenarian father longs for the touch of her daughter in his old age. Īffectionate touch of her father since her childhood. Maths at the threshold instead of embracing her lovingly. W hen she returns from the school her father used to ask her marks in Her father never touched and caressed her with love andĪffection. She is kept at a distance by her father in the name She worked as a Librarian at JNU New Delhi and took voluntary retirementĬontext :- the narrator recollects her childhood when she Short story “The Touch” written by a well known Telugu fiction writer AbburiĬhayadevi. Reference: - These lines are extracted from the ![]() Kept me at a distance-in the name of discipline, and because of Madi, his The ability to take care of their aged parents with love and affection.Į Annotationsġ)“ From the time I learnt my first letters of the alphabet, father had The story emphasizes thatĭaughters also love their parents on par with sons. Of the parents to free them from their earthly bonds. Is the carrier of the family line and he is the one who performs the last rites Her story throws light on orthodox belief of Indian parents that son Upbringing of a girl child and longing for tender touch. The major themes of the story are Patriarchy, orthodox beliefs, She is disappointed at her inability to fulfill her father's wish. Society never allows women to take independent decisions. Tender touch haunted her while going back home in a rickshaw.Patriarchal At this moment, sheįelt as if her education, job and everything else was superficial. Father stroked her hand affectionately and asked Longed to console her father when her brother died but she could not break wayįrom the constraints of rigid relationship and customs.The narrator met her father to enquire about his health. Though there was enough space she huddled at the far end. She recollected a rickshaw journey with her father as a She could not open up her heart andĭied with fight. Was in school, her father used to ask harshly about her score in Maths at the She had no courage to touch her father due to the fear andĭiffidence created over twenty years. When the daughter visited her bed ridden father, he asked her to sit next to him on the cot but she sat at theĮdge of the cot as her relationship with her father was more reserved than intimate. Madi ( a ritual of purity followed by orthodox Hindu) and orthodox Her father always kept her at a distance in the name of discipline , Her daughter’s touch at the end of the story. Girl child in an orthodox family and daughter’s longing for her father’sĪffectionate touch since childhood. ![]() ![]() It mainly focuses on the upbringing of the The women issues, family bonding and gender discrimination.Pįather and his married daughter. Stories Tana Magam Her stories have been translated intoĮnglish and Spanish besides many Indian languages. Was awarded Sahitya Akademi award in 2005 for her collection of short It is translated into English by Jayasree Mohanraj. Originally written in Telugu by Abburi Chayadevi, a well known
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