Kailasbasini Debi was born in 1830 and married off at 10 to Kishorichand Mitra, a prominent social reformer. He taught her to read and write Bengali and English. Kailasbasini often travelled with her husband, a high official in East India Company. Unlike most other women in that age she was both loved and respected by her husband. She wrote about her life meticulously on pages in the form of a diary which also contained jottings of her daily expenses and jewellery list. She was a rationalist and though she was critical of certain aspects of her Hindu life she conformed to tradition in fear of ostracism as in the case of Brahmo families. Her diary was published more than 50 years after her death in 1952 serially in the periodical "Basumati."
Research/Presentation/Voice-Over: Sudeshna Basu.
Camera/Editing: Sreejita Mukherjee.
Background Music Courtesy: Harmeet Singh.
Alam Khan.
19 май 2024
