THE DEVASTATION OF EPIDEMICS AND THE PAIN DEPICTED IN HINDI LITERATURE

Abstract

Whenever there is an epidemic or any disease, it opens many layers of the human mind. A person's mind always suffers from fear, despair, and depression. Be it the current epidemic or 1700, 1800 or 1900 AD, social conditions are not under control. Nothing remains in the control of man. All the efforts made by humans proved futile at the time of the epidemic. Everyone is familiar with the situation of Covid-19, but literature is the medium to become familiar with the epidemics of the Past. Writers have depicted the epidemic in their respective times in literature in such a way that it exactly matches the Covid-19 situation. Every Hundred Years Pandemics occur, for example, Plague in 1700 AD, Cholera in 1820 AD, Spanish flu in 1920 AD and Covid–19 in 2020. There have also been many pandemics after every hundred years, but their nature is different. We will try to understand them further. Last two years, everyone has been struggling with the (Corona Virus) Covid-19 epidemic; everyone also knows its negative effects. Whatever epidemics have come into the world before today, their information can be seen in the pages of history as well as in the pages of literature. The writer of every era engraves them in literature, and this is called a meaningful creation. Epidemic - related literature has been composed in all languages. Hindi fiction is also not untouched by this, be it smallpox, Influenza, tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, plague etc.