Ramesh  Prasad Adhikary, 
    Search for Social Identity in Parijat’s Blue Mimosa,
    Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences,
    Volume 16,Issue 3,
    2019,
    Pages 77-85,
    ISSN 1683-8831,
    pjssci.2019.77.85,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=pjssci.2019.77.85)
    Abstract: Parijat, an existentialist feminist novelist in her novel Blue Mimosa, presents a female protagonist,
Sakambari who is in search for self and autonomy in the patriarchal society. Women, in the Panchayat system
or in whatever political systems were subjected and dominated by the males. It was necessary to break such
system and ideology to emancipate women from the corrupted society. Sakambari has rebelled against the
conservative male ideology. This novel is an attempt to introduce women’s entity with their name with males
to introduce them. The woman protagonist Sakambari involves herself in smoking and debating as a revolt
against patriarchal society for the emancipation and selfhood of women.
    Keywords: Social identity;patriarchy;feminism;existentialism;freedom of choice;self