UNRAVELLING IMAGE OF BOORI MA: A CASE OF SUBALTERN WOMAN IN JHUMPA LAHIRI’S A REAL DURWAN

A Real Durwan is a short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri. The chronicles Boori Ma, sixty-four-year-old woman who works as Durwan, the gatekeeper and sweeper in an old building. She refugee from 1947 Partition between India Pakistan. It also portrays condition of ‘naturally’ considered second-class citizen patriarchal society. This paper uses qualitative research method to support analysis. Gayatri Spivak, prominent scholar, critic Postcolonial studies, describes subaltern. subaltern refers person excluded silenced Spivak concludes that subalterns cannot speak because repressive power domination. Ma portrayal woman. main female character experiences quadruple discrimination relation her gender, age, capital, identity. Ultimately, she remains voiceless has no choice but leave house due hatred defamation elite group. expected examine four categories discrimination: socioeconomic, ageism, ethnic, culture, its injustice towards In conclusion, it proved never-ending discrimination.