Chokher Bali

Chokher Bali is a Bengali novel of domestic life in Calcutta. Binodini, a young educated widow, enters a household of a devoted mother, her son Mahendra and his new wife Asha. Desires, friendships and jealousies slowly unsettle the family. Tagore treats his characters' inner lives with great psychological care and gives a widow's longings a seriousness that was unusual in its time. It is often seen as a landmark of the modern Indian novel.