O Abhagi

O Abhagi

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Abhagi is a lower-caste, poor village woman left by her husband and lives with her son Kangali in her small mud hut. In her childhood, Abhagi dreams of her death, she takes ill and soon passes away. Before her death, she tells her son about her wish for sindoor, alta, and being burnt in wood. Will her wish be fulfilled? Based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya’s short story ‘Abhagir Swargo’.