Manohar: A Voice against Socioeconomic Inequality in Jibon Ghoshe Agun (The Spark of Life) by Hasan Azizul Huq

This paper is designed to emphasize Manohar, the singer in Hasan Azizul Huq’s Jibon Ghoshe Agun (The Spark of Life) to investigate the themes of social injustice, poverty, and belligerence in rural Bengal. The feeling of anguish and prejudiced act that the poor and the oppressed encounter is well exemplified by the character of Manohar, who hails from the Tentule Bagdi community. The novella outlines how the poverty and the domination by the landlord babus force Manohar and his people to turn into tempered men and kill Ghantababu. This course of action is not only delinquent but a fatalistic proclamation of human dignity and disobedience against the depersonalizing impacts of hunger and oppression. This article will also access the psychological and social courses that orchestrates Manohar’s growth from a sufferer to a wrongdoer, imprisoned in a cycle of deliberate cruelty resulting from oppression. Moreover, the write up also scrutinizes Manohar’s hostilities and his inner turmoil to clarify how organizational factors lead to violence. Thus, by pursuing Manohar’s chronicle, the research paper attempts to draw attention to the problem of economic inequality and its potential to fuel rebellion among the burdened societies. This investigation adds to the knowledge of sociopolitical dynamics in rural Bengal and the toll of marginalization and extreme exploitation.