Synopsis:
A searing collection of life-stories from the heart of India The earth-eating Muggi, groomed by her brother-in-law, cons fourteen men into marrying her and runs off with their money, but falls in love with the fifteenth and eagerly awaits the day she will be released from prison so that she can return to him. The intimidating Vaishnavi pushes a buffalo, her cruel mother-in-law and husband over the edge of a ravine and spends the rest of her life punishing herself, wandering from place to place, homeless and penniless. These and other remarkable stories form this collection of sketches of ordinary women with extraordinary pasts. Compassionate without ever straying into sentimentality, Shivani's histories of the formidable women whose lives she chronicled strike a chord in our hearts even today, forty years after they were first written. A few of her short stories, inspired by these women, also form part of this brilliant translation from the Hindi by her daughter Ira Pande.
About the Author:
'Shivani' was the pseudonym of writer Gaura Pant (1923 2003). Awarded the Padma Shri in 1981, Shivani attained cult status in the 1960s and '70s. Her best-known works include the novels Chaudah Phere, Krishnakali, Smashan Champa, Rati Vilap and Vishkanya. Ira Pande has worked as a university teacher, writer and editor, and in television. She is the editor of the IIC Quarterly and the author of the critically acclaimed Diddi: My Mother's Voice. She was awarded the 2008 Vodafone-Crossword Indian Language Fiction Translation Prize for her translation of Manohar Shyam Joshi's T'Ta Professor
Author: Ira Pande
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Publication Date: 03 Feb 2011
Synopsis:
A searing collection of life-stories from the heart of India The earth-eating Muggi, groomed by her brother-in-law, cons fourteen men into marrying her and runs off with their money, but falls in love with the fifteenth and eagerly awaits the day she will be released from prison so that she can return to him. The intimidating Vaishnavi pushes a buffalo, her cruel mother-in-law and husband over the edge of a ravine and spends the rest of her life punishing herself, wandering from place to place, homeless and penniless. These and other remarkable stories form this collection of sketches of ordinary women with extraordinary pasts. Compassionate without ever straying into sentimentality, Shivani's histories of the formidable women whose lives she chronicled strike a chord in our hearts even today, forty years after they were first written. A few of her short stories, inspired by these women, also form part of this brilliant translation from the Hindi by her daughter Ira Pande.
About the Author:
'Shivani' was the pseudonym of writer Gaura Pant (1923 2003). Awarded the Padma Shri in 1981, Shivani attained cult status in the 1960s and '70s. Her best-known works include the novels Chaudah Phere, Krishnakali, Smashan Champa, Rati Vilap and Vishkanya. Ira Pande has worked as a university teacher, writer and editor, and in television. She is the editor of the IIC Quarterly and the author of the critically acclaimed Diddi: My Mother's Voice. She was awarded the 2008 Vodafone-Crossword Indian Language Fiction Translation Prize for her translation of Manohar Shyam Joshi's T'Ta Professor
Author: Ira Pande
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Publication Date: 03 Feb 2011
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