Though she shares his Marxist ideology, she is willing to compromise with the government to improve the conditions of impoverished people and works hard to found and maintain a hospital in the Sundarbans. Nilima is Nirmal’s wife and in some ways his opposite. Though other characters often dismiss Fokir as an uneducated fisherman, he’s deeply knowledgeable about the waters of the Sundarbans, as well as nature more broadly, and this allows him to help Piya in significant ways.
Typically seen with his young son, Tutul, Fokir is kind and welcoming to Piya, eager to help her, and dedicated to his family despite his frequent conflicts with his wife, Moyna. Fokirįokir is an impoverished fisherman who rescues Piya when she falls into the water. Yet as she gets to know Fokir and the novel progresses, she begins to learn about the human cost of conservation. Piya is intelligent but unambitious and begins the novel with a deep enthusiasm for animals and nature conservation. When she meets the fisherman Fokir, she is able to nonverbally communicate with him to the extent that they form a meaningful relationship. Piya is brave and confident, unfazed by the prospect of traveling to a relatively remote area where she does not speak the language. Though she was born in Kolkata, Piya grew up in the United States and never learned Bengali, her parents’ native language. Piya is a marine biologist who travels to the Sundarbans in India to survey the local river dolphins. Though he believes that he’s a “connoisseur” of women, Kanai repeatedly tries and fails to win Piya’s affection. Kanai is confident to the point of arrogance and tends to be self-centered, and initially views the Sundarbans as unimportant and inferior to his urban home.
He travels to the Sundarbans, which he visited once as a child, to read the notebook his uncle left him after his death. As his profession suggests, Kanai deeply values language, using it as a tool to empower himself to navigate the world and to learn about others. A well-off interpreter and translator who owns his own business, Kanai is a native of New Delhi.
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