November 24, 2025 • 10 mins
Explains that the original Bangla title, Shodh, balances between "revenge" and "getting even," framing the narrative as a feminist fable that challenges assumptions about what is "natural" in society. The story follows the protagonist, Jhumur, a university-educated woman who finds herself constrained by the suffocating expectations and patriarchal traditions of her husband Haroon's family, including performing domestic duties despite her degrees and enduring his jealousy. A central conflict revolves around Haroon's forced abortion of their first child due to his suspicion of her fidelity, which leads Jhumur to seek emotional refuge in an affair and eventually pursue her own form of "revenge" and independence by securing a job.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the deep dive. Today. We're getting into a
really powerful story about revenge, freedom, and well the lack
of it. It's the story of Jamoor, that's right.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It comes from Tezlima and Osrin's novel revenge Or, showed
in Bengali and then a translator actually calls it a
modern fable, which I think is quite fitting.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Definitely. Our mission here is to really trace Jumor's path.
She starts as this educated woman trapped, and we want
to uncover how she finds her own very specific way
of getting even.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And it's quite a journey, you know. The starting point
really sets the scene. Jimur has a physics degree.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
A physics degree, Yeah, and what's expected of her after
marriage basically just to use that knowledge to boil water
for her in laws.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, it perfectly captures the constraints she's immediately under. That
intellectual shutdown is kind of the spark for everything else.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So let's dig into that beginning. Before they got married.
Her suitor, her oun.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
He wasn't like this, no, not at all. He was
presented as well, almost poetic, greeny, talking about mysteries of existence.
They'd meet near rivers. He seemed to appreciate her mind,
her spirit.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
But literally, the moment the wedding's over that herun disappears, poof,
uh huh.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
He just transforms, becomes this incredibly rigid, working stiff, obsessed
with his status, his routine, his generator business and jhumor.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Has to fit into this tiny box he creates. She
has to be the boo, the proper daughter in law, veiled, quiet.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Totally subservient. Her laughter is suddenly too loud. She can't
stand with the balcony. It's complete erasure.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And you mentioned his status obsession. It's not just personal preferences.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It no, no, it seems deeply tied to his ambition.
He wants to climb socially, fit into the accepted structure,
and for that he needs this very traditional image, the
diligent provider, the perfectly behaved wife. It's performative in.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
A way, performative, but with devastating real world consequences, which
brings us to the pregnancy. She finds out she's pregnant
just six weeks in.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Right, and she tells her own, probably expecting joy like
her friendship's husband Deepoo, who is ecstatic.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
But Hern's reaction is well, it's awful. He just explodes,
offers her pepto bismal.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Shouts what rot denies it's even possible because it's only
been six weeks since.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The wedding, And that denial quickly turns nasty, doesn't it
into outright suspicion.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
The intense irrational suspicion. Even after a doctor confirms she's pregnant,
heron doesn't believe it's his, He accuses her, suggesting it
might be old friends he'd already banned her from seeing,
like Souphash or our Zoo.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
He even brings up the fact she didn't bleed on
their wedding night, something totally irrelevant, just to undermine.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Her exactly, casting doubt on her purity, her virginity. It's
all fuel for his jealousy, and based on this he
forces her to have an abortion.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Forces her and the detail that she feels she has
no choice, like she's just his property.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's crucial, absolutely, and she has to endure the procedure.
Conscious she sees the instrument being used, that it's a
trauma that embeds itself physically psychologically.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's the ultimate violation, isn't it? In that context, asserting
total ownership over her body, her future.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yes, it seals her fate within that marriage, at least
for a time, locks her in that prison.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And then the aftermath is almost sicker. Her room nurses
her back to health, but it's this cloying, over the
top attention.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
As if she's been purified by the abortion. He reinforces
this lie that it was all just a mistake, bad timing.
It cements his possession.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So now she's completely confined, can't work, can't see friends.
Her only escape is literally looking up at this tiny
azure strip of sky.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
But that confinement, it doesn't break her spirit. It just
forces her mind, that's suppressed intelligence, to find another way out,
a hidden path.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And that's when Avsaal appears.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Right. Avsaki's this bohemian painter, long hair, totally doesn't vibe.
He's the brother in law for downstairs neighbors Sabadi.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And Sabody is important too, Right, she's a gynecologist.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, Subody becomes Junoor's confidante, her link to information and
the outside world of vital connection.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So Offsaw he's the complete opposite of her own polar opposites.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Offsall is unshaven, wants to paint nudes, talks about travel
and freedom. Herun is meticulous, clean shaven, obsessed with his
generator of business, and.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Jumor feels this intense pull towards f saw Is it
just attraction or something more calculated?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Well, the attraction seems real, definitely a symbol of escape,
but it quickly shifts. I think it becomes part of
a plan, a very calculated, intellectual process.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
She realizes the only way to get power back after
what Harun did is to control her own fertility, to
have a child that isn't his exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And this is where her physics background, that logical mind
comes back into play. She applies that precise thinking to
her life.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
She learns from Sabadi, the gynecologist's neighbor, about fertile cycles, ovulation,
the biology of it all.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's a crash course basically, and then she consciously starts
an affair with Fsal. They meet secretly in Sabadi's empty apartment.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
It's like an experiment, a.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Biological experiment, yes, and Harun is the completely unwitting subject.
She makes sure to reject his advances when she's actually fertile.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And the really cutting detail is her watching him try
to get her pregnant during her period.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Right because he holds this traditional, completely wrong belief that
that's the right time. She even feels the sort of
cynical glee watching his ignorance play out.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
There's that phrase the source uses about her mortgaging her
body to fsall in order to purchase power. That sums
it up starkly.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It really does. She's using the one thing she can control,
her body, her knowledge of it, against his ignorance to
undermine his power at its very foundation.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And the plan works like clockwork.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Almost immediately, she's pregnant again and herun He has no
idea about the timing, the calculation.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
He's just ecstatic, utterly overjoyed, and the irony just hits
you immediately. He's showering her with flowers, sweets, public affection.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Which yes, secures her a position in the family, but
it also shows how blinkered he becomes totally.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
He starts neglecting everything else, His business suffers, family issues
like his injured brother Hassan, or his arrested brother in
law a niece ignored.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
All that matters is Jumor and his air, this perceived
proof of his manhood and their family's future.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Then the baby is born a son Ma Boob, but
they call him Ananda. It's a sea section.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And the physical pain of the birth brings back the trauma.
It triggers the memory of the abortion, that sharp instrument.
Seeing Arun's face, it's still there under the surface.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
But the victory is there too. Hern is thrilled immediately
says the baby looks exactly like him, his nose, his forehead.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
But Schumer sees it just for a flash. She catches
a glimpse of a miniature Afsaul in the baby's face,
her shod. Her revenge is complete and secret.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
And hern he becomes the model.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Father oh completely devoted, changing diapers, taking care of the baby,
everything he'd probably promised before, and the ultimate symbolic act.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
He renames his business to.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
A Nonda trading after the son who represents Humor's secret victory.
The irony is just.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Staggering, Kanwale, What about a fsall the other piece of
the plan.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Humor finds out from Sabadi that he's just gone, left
for Australia, married an Australian woman, settled down.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And Jumer's reaction.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Relief mostly relief that he's gone. She realized he wasn't
someone she could ever really trust. He served his purpose
in our plan. There's no regret about losing him as
a lover.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So fast forward three years, the whole dynamic in the
house has.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Changed, fundamentally shifted. Herun is completely wrapped up in Ananda
and Jumor. She's gained freedom.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Because she's the mother of the male heir that biological
shod bought her status. She can go out unveiled. Now
visit her old friends, right.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
The very friends Harun banned her from seeing, and she
decides it's time to well rub his nose into the bit.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
She throws a big dinner party, invites suphash Our Zoo,
Nadira Chandana, her whole old world right.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Into his house, shows in the life the people he
tried to cut her off from, and they even pose
for photos. This picture perfect happy family built on her secret.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
It's all leading up to something, isn't it the final move?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yes, the second active shot. During the dinner, she just
casually interrupts the conversation makes an announcement the surprise.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
She's got a job, secretly arranged at all, teaching at
a primary school. The runy Sanoon starting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Boom just drops it on him, and.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Hern's reaction tells you everything about how much power has shifted.
He's agitated, speechless for a moment, but.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
He doesn't forbid it. He can't really. All he can
do is question the logistics, who'll take Ananda to school?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And then the financial jab are you short of cash?
As if that's the only possible reason a woman like
her would want to work.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
He completely misses the point, the symbolism. This isn't about
money or logistics for her.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
This is the intellectual revenge, moving from being property only
good for boiling water to being a paid, state recognized teacher,
asserting her own worth publicly.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And she tells him straight his refusal to let her
work back then that was a slap in the face.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And taking this job now, earning her own money, having
her own responsibility, that's like slapping you back.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It's reclaiming your autonomy, not just physically through the child,
but intellectually and financially.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And the story ends there. Essentially, Jimmer has achieved this independence.
Herun's lying awake, agitated, realizing he can't stop her. The
world he tried to control has broken open.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So wrapping this up for you the listener. Jimmer's story
shows these two kinds of revenge, these two forms of
shood working together.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
First the silent biological one, having Ananda that bought her
safety status within the family structure. It was a necessary
internal move.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And second, the public intellectual one, taking the teaching job
that secured her independence out in the world, her financial
and professional freedom.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It really underlines that modern fable idea, doesn't it When
society boxes you in completely like it did to Schumer.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Sometimes the only way out involves these really unconventional, high
risk strategies, calculated moves. Her real strength wasn't just having
a physics degree, It was using that logical, calculating mind
to gain the impossible system she was trapped in.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Which brings us to that final really provocative thought. Harun's
entire world revolves around Ananda. Now his love for this
son is all consuming.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So the question the novel leaves hanging is what if
he knew? If Arun discovered that the child he adores,
the boy his business is named after, is actually the
living proof of Humor's ultimate betrayal, her ultimate act of liberation.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Would that intense fatherly love survive the truth Could.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
It a really tough question, something to chew on.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Indeed, that concludes our deep dive into Schumer's intricate fable
of revenge from Shad. Thanks for joining us, We'll see
you next time.
Welcome to the deep dive. Today. We're getting into a
really powerful story about revenge, freedom, and well the lack
of it. It's the story of Jamoor, that's right.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It comes from Tezlima and Osrin's novel revenge Or, showed
in Bengali and then a translator actually calls it a
modern fable, which I think is quite fitting.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Definitely. Our mission here is to really trace Jumor's path.
She starts as this educated woman trapped, and we want
to uncover how she finds her own very specific way
of getting even.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And it's quite a journey, you know. The starting point
really sets the scene. Jimur has a physics degree.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
A physics degree, Yeah, and what's expected of her after
marriage basically just to use that knowledge to boil water
for her in laws.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, it perfectly captures the constraints she's immediately under. That
intellectual shutdown is kind of the spark for everything else.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So let's dig into that beginning. Before they got married.
Her suitor, her oun.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
He wasn't like this, no, not at all. He was
presented as well, almost poetic, greeny, talking about mysteries of existence.
They'd meet near rivers. He seemed to appreciate her mind,
her spirit.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
But literally, the moment the wedding's over that herun disappears, poof,
uh huh.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
He just transforms, becomes this incredibly rigid, working stiff, obsessed
with his status, his routine, his generator business and jhumor.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Has to fit into this tiny box he creates. She
has to be the boo, the proper daughter in law, veiled, quiet.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Totally subservient. Her laughter is suddenly too loud. She can't
stand with the balcony. It's complete erasure.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And you mentioned his status obsession. It's not just personal preferences.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It no, no, it seems deeply tied to his ambition.
He wants to climb socially, fit into the accepted structure,
and for that he needs this very traditional image, the
diligent provider, the perfectly behaved wife. It's performative in.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
A way, performative, but with devastating real world consequences, which
brings us to the pregnancy. She finds out she's pregnant
just six weeks in.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Right, and she tells her own, probably expecting joy like
her friendship's husband Deepoo, who is ecstatic.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
But Hern's reaction is well, it's awful. He just explodes,
offers her pepto bismal.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Shouts what rot denies it's even possible because it's only
been six weeks since.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The wedding, And that denial quickly turns nasty, doesn't it
into outright suspicion.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
The intense irrational suspicion. Even after a doctor confirms she's pregnant,
heron doesn't believe it's his, He accuses her, suggesting it
might be old friends he'd already banned her from seeing,
like Souphash or our Zoo.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
He even brings up the fact she didn't bleed on
their wedding night, something totally irrelevant, just to undermine.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Her exactly, casting doubt on her purity, her virginity. It's
all fuel for his jealousy, and based on this he
forces her to have an abortion.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Forces her and the detail that she feels she has
no choice, like she's just his property.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's crucial, absolutely, and she has to endure the procedure.
Conscious she sees the instrument being used, that it's a
trauma that embeds itself physically psychologically.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's the ultimate violation, isn't it? In that context, asserting
total ownership over her body, her future.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yes, it seals her fate within that marriage, at least
for a time, locks her in that prison.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And then the aftermath is almost sicker. Her room nurses
her back to health, but it's this cloying, over the
top attention.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
As if she's been purified by the abortion. He reinforces
this lie that it was all just a mistake, bad timing.
It cements his possession.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So now she's completely confined, can't work, can't see friends.
Her only escape is literally looking up at this tiny
azure strip of sky.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
But that confinement, it doesn't break her spirit. It just
forces her mind, that's suppressed intelligence, to find another way out,
a hidden path.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And that's when Avsaal appears.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Right. Avsaki's this bohemian painter, long hair, totally doesn't vibe.
He's the brother in law for downstairs neighbors Sabadi.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And Sabody is important too, Right, she's a gynecologist.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, Subody becomes Junoor's confidante, her link to information and
the outside world of vital connection.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So Offsaw he's the complete opposite of her own polar opposites.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Offsall is unshaven, wants to paint nudes, talks about travel
and freedom. Herun is meticulous, clean shaven, obsessed with his
generator of business, and.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Jumor feels this intense pull towards f saw Is it
just attraction or something more calculated?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Well, the attraction seems real, definitely a symbol of escape,
but it quickly shifts. I think it becomes part of
a plan, a very calculated, intellectual process.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
She realizes the only way to get power back after
what Harun did is to control her own fertility, to
have a child that isn't his exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And this is where her physics background, that logical mind
comes back into play. She applies that precise thinking to
her life.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
She learns from Sabadi, the gynecologist's neighbor, about fertile cycles, ovulation,
the biology of it all.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's a crash course basically, and then she consciously starts
an affair with Fsal. They meet secretly in Sabadi's empty apartment.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
It's like an experiment, a.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Biological experiment, yes, and Harun is the completely unwitting subject.
She makes sure to reject his advances when she's actually fertile.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And the really cutting detail is her watching him try
to get her pregnant during her period.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Right because he holds this traditional, completely wrong belief that
that's the right time. She even feels the sort of
cynical glee watching his ignorance play out.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
There's that phrase the source uses about her mortgaging her
body to fsall in order to purchase power. That sums
it up starkly.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It really does. She's using the one thing she can control,
her body, her knowledge of it, against his ignorance to
undermine his power at its very foundation.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And the plan works like clockwork.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Almost immediately, she's pregnant again and herun He has no
idea about the timing, the calculation.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
He's just ecstatic, utterly overjoyed, and the irony just hits
you immediately. He's showering her with flowers, sweets, public affection.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Which yes, secures her a position in the family, but
it also shows how blinkered he becomes totally.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
He starts neglecting everything else, His business suffers, family issues
like his injured brother Hassan, or his arrested brother in
law a niece ignored.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
All that matters is Jumor and his air, this perceived
proof of his manhood and their family's future.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Then the baby is born a son Ma Boob, but
they call him Ananda. It's a sea section.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And the physical pain of the birth brings back the trauma.
It triggers the memory of the abortion, that sharp instrument.
Seeing Arun's face, it's still there under the surface.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
But the victory is there too. Hern is thrilled immediately
says the baby looks exactly like him, his nose, his forehead.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
But Schumer sees it just for a flash. She catches
a glimpse of a miniature Afsaul in the baby's face,
her shod. Her revenge is complete and secret.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
And hern he becomes the model.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Father oh completely devoted, changing diapers, taking care of the baby,
everything he'd probably promised before, and the ultimate symbolic act.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
He renames his business to.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
A Nonda trading after the son who represents Humor's secret victory.
The irony is just.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Staggering, Kanwale, What about a fsall the other piece of
the plan.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Humor finds out from Sabadi that he's just gone, left
for Australia, married an Australian woman, settled down.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And Jumer's reaction.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Relief mostly relief that he's gone. She realized he wasn't
someone she could ever really trust. He served his purpose
in our plan. There's no regret about losing him as
a lover.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So fast forward three years, the whole dynamic in the
house has.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Changed, fundamentally shifted. Herun is completely wrapped up in Ananda
and Jumor. She's gained freedom.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Because she's the mother of the male heir that biological
shod bought her status. She can go out unveiled. Now
visit her old friends, right.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
The very friends Harun banned her from seeing, and she
decides it's time to well rub his nose into the bit.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
She throws a big dinner party, invites suphash Our Zoo,
Nadira Chandana, her whole old world right.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Into his house, shows in the life the people he
tried to cut her off from, and they even pose
for photos. This picture perfect happy family built on her secret.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
It's all leading up to something, isn't it the final move?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yes, the second active shot. During the dinner, she just
casually interrupts the conversation makes an announcement the surprise.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
She's got a job, secretly arranged at all, teaching at
a primary school. The runy Sanoon starting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Boom just drops it on him, and.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Hern's reaction tells you everything about how much power has shifted.
He's agitated, speechless for a moment, but.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
He doesn't forbid it. He can't really. All he can
do is question the logistics, who'll take Ananda to school?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And then the financial jab are you short of cash?
As if that's the only possible reason a woman like
her would want to work.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
He completely misses the point, the symbolism. This isn't about
money or logistics for her.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
This is the intellectual revenge, moving from being property only
good for boiling water to being a paid, state recognized teacher,
asserting her own worth publicly.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And she tells him straight his refusal to let her
work back then that was a slap in the face.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And taking this job now, earning her own money, having
her own responsibility, that's like slapping you back.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It's reclaiming your autonomy, not just physically through the child,
but intellectually and financially.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And the story ends there. Essentially, Jimmer has achieved this independence.
Herun's lying awake, agitated, realizing he can't stop her. The
world he tried to control has broken open.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So wrapping this up for you the listener. Jimmer's story
shows these two kinds of revenge, these two forms of
shood working together.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
First the silent biological one, having Ananda that bought her
safety status within the family structure. It was a necessary
internal move.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And second, the public intellectual one, taking the teaching job
that secured her independence out in the world, her financial
and professional freedom.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It really underlines that modern fable idea, doesn't it When
society boxes you in completely like it did to Schumer.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Sometimes the only way out involves these really unconventional, high
risk strategies, calculated moves. Her real strength wasn't just having
a physics degree, It was using that logical, calculating mind
to gain the impossible system she was trapped in.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Which brings us to that final really provocative thought. Harun's
entire world revolves around Ananda. Now his love for this
son is all consuming.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So the question the novel leaves hanging is what if
he knew? If Arun discovered that the child he adores,
the boy his business is named after, is actually the
living proof of Humor's ultimate betrayal, her ultimate act of liberation.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Would that intense fatherly love survive the truth Could.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
It a really tough question, something to chew on.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Indeed, that concludes our deep dive into Schumer's intricate fable
of revenge from Shad. Thanks for joining us, We'll see
you next time.
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