The article proposes to make a detailed analysis of select poems from the socio-political aspect. The disjuncture of the societal scenario of the modern world reflects in the poetical expression and sensibility in the continuum of the poems. Set within the crux of the inside-outside world of a poet, the poems happen to be the socio-political testimonies as well as mingling the aesthetic and the real truth. The poems, largely act like the microcosms of the different dimensions of socio-political scenarios that project the four corners of the world. The article makes an extensive study of the poetic essence of alienation and paranoia that revolve around in the modern society of rupture and restlessness through select poems of Subodh Sarkar from the anthology called Not in My Name: Selected Poems (1978-2017), translated and edited by Jaydeep Sarangi and published in 2018. The paper seeks to address the pain and sufferance of women in the realm of Patriarchy through Anuradha Roy’s An Atlas of Impossible Longing.

Moreover, Roy’s characters seems so real along with a good story- telling that one can easily identify themselves with all the mentioned issues in real life.

Probably Roy’s observances about the society and women have been so minute that she has been able to address the issue so realistically from a female’s perspective. At least through literature writers are able to express the unexpressed and globalise the issues.

The Patriarchal system is so deeply rooted that it will take years and years to uproot it on the ground level. In the confinement of imposed Patriarchal norms, the women have developed a sense of loss of their individuality as a gender. Life to them is just to have a mere existence only for the sake of performing duties and responsibilities be it in the form of a mother, a wife, a daughter or a sister. Since ages the Patriarchal system has been so dominant over women to an extent that in the process, they themselves have developed a mindset that they are just born to suffer at the hands of men. Patriarchy serves as the nucleus in almost all the communities in Indian society irrespective of the various social hierarchies.

An atlas of impossible longing