Zhang Yimou

one often had to suffer in silence while he sought out and devoted himself to a new bride. (One of the best ways to become acquainted with the sufferings caused by polygamy is to view the 1991 film Raise the Red Lantern by the Chinese director Yimou Zhang.) Tagore seems determined in this book to touch on a wide variety of issues relating to women’s problems: arranged marriages, spousal abuse, rape, discrimination against widows, and polygamy. The “Postscript” to “Damini” seems at first to be one