Mahasweta Devi
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RomthaINR 250A beautiful young man condemned to death for a crime of passion; his lover, the beautiful courtesan whom he kills but continues to mourn and yearn for; and a lonely y...
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Bashai TuduINR 350"'Operation? - Bashai Tudu', a novelette, and 'Draupadi', a short story, .. evoke a modern myth of a tribal peasant revolutionary who turns up whenever the landless farm labourers are driven to a cris... -
Chotti Munda and His ArrowINR 599‘I had but that one arrow,’ says Chotti Munda, the hero of this epic tale. A 'magic’ arrow that stood for the pride, the wisdom, the culture of his society, a society threatened with inevitab...
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The Book of the HunterINR 325This riveting and expansive novel set in sixteenth-century medieval Bengal draws on the life of the great medieval poet Kabikankan Mukundaram Chakrabarti, whose epic poem Abhayamanga better known a...
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In the Name of the MotherINR 275His mother’s gone, there’s no one to cook hot rice when it’s evening . . . No one to say, ‘Son, sit near my lap and eat.’
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The Queen of JhansiINR 599Lakshmibai, the Queen of Jhansi, a legendary Indian heroine, led her troops against the British in the uprising of 1857, which is now widely described as the first In...
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OutcastINR 350Four women—all from the most oppressed, marginalized segments of society. Whether it is Dhouli, the young Dusad woman who finds herself an outcast in her own villag...
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Breast StoriesINR 499Draupadi's black body comes even closer. Draupadi shakes with an indomitable laughter that Senanayak simply cannot understand. Her ravaged lips bleed as she begins la...
