> i remember reading maithilI SaraN gupt's 'yaSOdara'
> in one of my hindi classes at school. jayaprabha gAri
> 'yaSOdarA ee vagapendukE' was on similar lines.
> did she mention the former work as an inspiration or is
> this just a coincidence?
>
I do not know if jayaprabha's poem is related in anyway (e.g.: a
reaction) to maithili SaraN Gupta's poem. I find these two poems to be
very different.
As Mohanaraavu gaaru posted, maithili SaraN Gupta's yaSOdhara
is an excited wife eagerly awaiting the imminent return of a longlost
husband returning with 'success'. jayaprabha's yaSOdhara is a
distraught woman whose husband left her in the middle of night
without even a word as to the why and where. (Incidentally, I did not post
the entire poem).
Many of the feminist works (including some of jayaprabha's work)
question the assumptions that the writers made about the female
characters and the value systems in the classical, mythological, and
contemporary stories.
Regards. --- V. Chowdary Jampala