The Woman and the Snake

Abstract

The story, “The woman and the Snake”, originally titled “Nari o Nagini”, explores the intricacies of man-woman relationships and explicates the psychology of the woman mind, especially the interplay of the twin emotions of love and jealousy. The present translation of the short story by Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, one of the foremost short story writers of Bengali literature, is an attempt to present the complexity of text to the global readers. Special care has been taken to retain the original flavour of the source language text by following a judicious blending of metaphrase, or word for word translation, and paraphrase, or sense for sense translation, methods.